Vanessa Dekoninck
Biographic Data
| ID | 215882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Dekoninck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Dekoninck |
| SIGNATURE | DEKONINCK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis, CaliforniaCharles Darwin UniversityDarwinAustralia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cleaning, Protecting, or Abating? Making Indigenous Fire Management “Work” in Northern Australia
Kakadu National Park in northern Australia was one of the first jointly managed parks in the world, and offers an important case study of how public institutions and indigenous communities interact in the management of landscapes. In the 1990s, an extensive fire management program was instituted in Kakadu. The aim of this program was to shift the timing of fires from the late dry season to the early dry season, a pattern that on its surface more …
Encounters on the Frontier
This paper considers the case of an introduced species that resides in what is now a jointly managed national park in the north of tropical Australia. Banteng ( Bos javanicus ) are a peculiar feral nonhuman animal in that they constitute a potential environmental threat within the domestic conservation goals of the park, but they also hold the prospect of being a major genetic resource in the international conservation of the species. Thus, persp…
Joint Management of Banteng (Bos javanicus) in a Contested Cultural Landscape
This article presents findings on Aboriginal perspectives of the feral banteng (Bos javanicus) herd located in the Aboriginal-owned and jointly managed Garig Gunak Barlu National Park. The park, situated on the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia’s Northern Territory, is home to what may be the world’s largest remaining wild herd of banteng, and the animals have both local and international significance. The article presents extensive ethnographic det…
Encounters on the Frontier
This paper considers the case of an introduced species that resides in what is now a jointly managed national park in the north of tropical Australia. Banteng ( Bos javanicus ) are a peculiar feral nonhuman animal in that they constitute a potential environmental threat within the domestic conservation goals of the park, but they also hold the prospect of being a major genetic resource in the international conservation of the species. Thus, persp…
Joint Management of Banteng (Bos javanicus) in a Contested Cultural Landscape
This article presents findings on Aboriginal perspectives of the feral banteng (Bos javanicus) herd located in the Aboriginal-owned and jointly managed Garig Gunak Barlu National Park. The park, situated on the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia’s Northern Territory, is home to what may be the world’s largest remaining wild herd of banteng, and the animals have both local and international significance. The article presents extensive ethnographic det…
Encounters on the Frontier
This paper considers the case of an introduced species that resides in what is now a jointly managed national park in the north of tropical Australia. Banteng ( Bos javanicus ) are a peculiar feral nonhuman animal in that they constitute a potential environmental threat within the domestic conservation goals of the park, but they also hold the prospect of being a major genetic resource in the international conservation of the species. Thus, persp…
Cleaning, Protecting, or Abating? Making Indigenous Fire Management “Work” in Northern Australia
Kakadu National Park in northern Australia was one of the first jointly managed parks in the world, and offers an important case study of how public institutions and indigenous communities interact in the management of landscapes. In the 1990s, an extensive fire management program was instituted in Kakadu. The aim of this program was to shift the timing of fires from the late dry season to the early dry season, a pattern that on its surface more …
Archaeology (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · National park (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (2 works) · Biology (1 work)