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Burning Questions
Marcia Langton
其他書名
Emerging Environmental Issues for Indigenous Peoples in Northern Australia
出版Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, Northern Territory University, 1998
主題Science / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / GeneralScience / Environmental ScienceSocial Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN18764830679781876483067
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w6X7AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Examination of environmental issues facing Aboriginal peoples in northern Australia; discusses the impact of non-Indigenous and 'scientific' approaches to the understanding of the Australian environment on Aboriginal peoples interests in the environment; criticism of the western concepts of 'wilderness', archaeological, ecological and environmentalist representation of the Aboriginal past and global models of environmental management; argues for the effective role of Aboriginal agency in land management; changes in Aboriginal land use in northern Australia; use of fire - debates about its past and present impacts (criticism of Flannery's The Future Eaters); case studies of contemporary Aboriginal land management - Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation (Yolngu lands), Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (Blyth and Liverpool River region) and Arafura Wetlands; argues for models of shared responsibility between Indigenous and other systems of land management.