Living With Fire
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Description
Humans have been living with fire in the landscape for millennia. However, different groups within society (e.g. indigenous people, urban and rural residents, scientists, govt land management agencies and politicians) can have quite different views on the place of fire in the landscape. Many climatologists predict that the frequency, severity and extent of bushfires will increase under most future climate change scenarios.
La Trobe University’s Centre for the Study of the Inland and its Research Centre for Future Landscapes are bringing people together to discuss constructive ways of valuing different cultural perspectives on living with fire, to address this growing challenge in a sustainable and holistic manner.
With the renowned Prefessor Stephen Pyne (Arizona State University) delivering the keynote address, followed by presentations from Lee Miezis (Deputy Secretary, Forest, Fire and Regions DELWP, Professor Dick Williams (Charles Darwin University, formerly with CSIRO, Dr Tim Neale (Deakin Uni, ) and Trent Nelson (Parks Vic) and ending with a panel discussion with all the presenters, this will be a seminar not to be missed.
includes morning tea and lunch
Organiser The Centre for the Study of the Inland
Organiser of Living With Fire
The Centre for the Study of the Inland (CSI) is based in the La Trobe University College of Arts, Social Science and Commerce and brings together key LTU strengths including Archaeology, History and Social Sciences. 'Inland' is both a physical space and an idea. It can be variously named the 'outback', 'the bush', 'the west', the 'wilderness'. In Australia as in other countries, the inland has been lived in, fought over, and transformed by millennia of human interaction and environmental change. The landscapes of the inland have been made by the social, political and cultural histories of the people that use, care and struggle for the land, water and resources found within.
CSI has a broad focus on inland Australia, and provides a clear, and multi-disciplinary platform for research on the interconnecting themes of water, landscapes and land use (including indigenous land use), agricultural and pastoral history, settlement and migration, resource extraction, and human responses to long-term climate and environmental change.
