Challenges for prescribed fire management in Australia’s fire-prone rangelands – the example of the Northern Territory
| Autor: | Mark R. Gardener, Kamaljit K. Sangha, Andrew Edwards, Cameron Yates, Jeremy Russell-Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Flammable liquid
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology Jurisdiction Emergency management Fire regime business.industry Prescribed burn Environmental resource management Forestry 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Indigenous chemistry.chemical_compound Geography chemistry Rangeland business Risk management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29:339 |
| ISSN: | 1049-8001 |
| Popis: | Northern Australia comprises by far the most fire-prone-half of a fiery continent, where fire frequencies range from annual in the tropical savannas to periodic very-extensive fire events following above-rainfall conditions in the central Australian rangelands. As illustration of the challenges facing effective fire management in Australia’s 5.7×106km2 rangelands, we examine the status of contemporary prescribed burning activities in the Northern Territory, a 1.4×106km2, very sparsely settled (0.18 persons km−2) jurisdiction characterised by vast flammable landscapes, few barriers to fire-spread, predominantly anthropogenic ignitions, and limited institutional resources and capacity. Unsurprisingly, prescribed-fire management is shown to be restricted to specific locales. For more effective, landscape-scale fire management, potential solutions include engagement with dispersed remote communities and incorporation of Indigenous Ranger Groups into the fire-management network, and building on the success of savanna-burning greenhouse gas emission projects as an example for incentivising landscape fire and emergency management services generally. Recently, significant steps have been taken towards implementing formal regional fire-management planning processes involving inclusive community-stakeholder engagement, and the setting of clearly defined time-constrained objectives and targets. |
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