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Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes
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Roos, C and Bowman, DMJS and Balch, JK and Artaxo, P and Bond, WJ and Cochrane, M and D'Antonio, CM and DeFries, R and Mack, M and Johnston, FH and Krawchuk, MA and Kull, CA and Moritz, MA and Pyne, S and Scott, AC and Swetnam, TW, Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes, Journal of Biogeography, 41, (4) pp. 833-836. ISSN 0305-0270 (2014) [Contribution to Refereed Journal]
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Abstract
In our 2011 synthesis (Bowman et al., Journal
of Biogeography, 2011, 38, 2223–2236),
we argued for a holistic approach to
human issues in fire science that we term
‘pyrogeography’. Coughlan & Petty (Journal
of Biogeography, 2013, 40, 1010–1012)
critiqued our paper on the grounds that
our ‘pyric phase’ model was built on
outdated views of cultural development,
claiming we developed it to be the unifying
explanatory framework for all human–fire
sciences. Rather, they suggest that ‘historical
ecology’ could provide such a framework.
We used the ‘pyric transition’ for
multiple purposes but did not offer it as an
exclusive explanatory framework for pyrogeography.
Although ‘historical ecology’ is
one of many useful approaches to studying
human–fire relationships, scholars should
also look to political and evolutionary ecology,
ecosystems and complexity theories, as
well as empirical generalizations to build
an interdisciplinary fire science that incorporates
human, ecological and biophysical
dimensions of fire regimes.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Contribution to Refereed Journal |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | forest fires, pyrogeography |
| Research Division: | Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Epidemiology |
| Research Field: | Environmental epidemiology |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Public health (excl. specific population health) |
| Objective Field: | Public health (excl. specific population health) not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
| UTAS Author: | Johnston, FH (Professor Fay Johnston) |
| ID Code: | 96957 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (LP0882048) |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 42 |
| Deposited By: | Menzies Institute for Medical Research |
| Deposited On: | 2014-11-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-04-15 |
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