- Title:
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Living With Fire on the Land: Local environmental knowledge for bushfire management in new rural landscapes
- Date:
- September 2008
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- C. Eriksen
- Location:
- Australia, NSW, Australia
Overview
The International Bushfire Research Conference 2008 - incorporating The 15th annual AFAC Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
This poster presents the preliminary outcomes of a PhD research project on the production of 'Local' Environmental Knowledge (LEK) for bushfire management in 'New Rural Landscapes' (NRL) in New South Wales. NRL are rural areas experiencing population growth as a result of either their proximity to major urban areas of their high amenity value.
With the influx of tree changers and the subdivision of farmland, lifestyles and values more commonly associated with urban areas are being brought into rural places, whilst conflict over land use and management practices is increasing. Despite the recognised bushfire hazard in many NRL, little is known about how LEK on bushfires is produced and/or shared amongst diverse landowners in NRL and how this influences the dynamics of NSW Rural Fire Service Brigades and local bushfire management.
This research project considers the extent to which, and the ways in which, local environmental knowledge regarding bushfires is being reconstructed as part of the re-composition of rural landscapes and the influx of tree/sea changers.
