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Culturally appropriate mapping tools for informing two-way fire management planning in remote indigenous north Australian communities (#9)

Andrew C Edwards 1 2 , Jeremy Russell-Smith 1 2 3 , Kamaljit Sangha 1 2 , Cameron P Yates 1 2
  1. Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research, Darwin, NT
  2. Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Darwin, NT
  3. North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, , Darwin, NT

Remote northern indigenous communities are prone to annual flood, cyclonic events, and severe fire danger periods lasting weeks that frequently result in environmentally destructive bushfires. Although effective responses to such events are typically hindered by inadequate infrastructural resources, of equal concern is the paucity of culturally appropriate ‘two-way’ planning aids that can help inform both non-indigenous and indigenous governance institutions, and build local community resilience. Based on extensive savanna fire-management research describing fire impacts on a variety of ecosystem services and values, we describe the development and testing of mapping tools to assist community-based fire management planning in two remote Arnhem Land communities.

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