Living with landscape fire

Landholder understandings of agency, scale and control within fiery entanglements

Bibliographic Data

ID4475262
AuthorsAmanda Edwards (0000-0001-6123-8483, University of Wollongong, corresponding author), Nicholas Gill (0000-0001-7514-2837, University of Wollongong)
Year2016
Volume34
Issue6
Pages1080-1097
Publication date2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775816645588
OpenAlexW2344457928
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited37

Around the world, debates over how to manage and adapt to bushfires (or wildfires) are increasingly prominent as more and different people, many of whom have little or no experience with landscape fire or land management, inhabit fire-prone environments. But bushfire events represent only the most visible aspect of complex entanglements which operate across huge temporal and spatial scales and over which humans have very limited control. In this article, we focus on how Australian landholders of settler or migrant heritage understand scalar complexities and agency and control within human/landscape fire entanglements. In view of the fact that the learning styles of landholders new to rural areas have been developed in different environments with very different challenges, we also ask whether immersion within rural, fire-prone environments influences ways of 'knowing' land and fire

Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Rural development and sustainability

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