Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia

<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p><li>Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts </li><li>Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities </li><li>Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialized disciplines like Anthropology</li><li>Responds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australia’s natural environments/climate and value the knowledge of Indigenous people </li><li>Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention as the Australian government is again looking to ‘develop the north'</li><p><em>Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia</em> sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy. This vision supports both Indigenous cultural responsibilities and aspirations as well as enhancing enterprise opportunities for society as a whole. In the past well-meaning if often misguided policy agendas have failed - and continue to fail - North Australians. This book helps breach that gap by acknowledging and harnessing Indigenous cultural strengths and knowledge systems for looking after the country and its people as part of a smart novel and diversified ecosystem services economy.</p>