‘Are we wasting our time?’: bushfire practitioners and flammable futures in northern Australia Neale, Timothy 2017, ‘Are we wasting our time?’: bushfire practitioners and flammable futures in northern Australia, Social and cultural geography, In press, pp. 1-23, doi: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1285423. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title ‘Are we wasting our time?’: bushfire practitioners and flammable futures in northern Australia Author(s) Neale, Timothy orcid.org/0000-0003-4703-5801 Journal name Social and cultural geography Season In press Start page 1 End page 23 Total pages 23 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2017-02-05 ISSN 1464-9365 1470-1197 Keyword(s) bushfire risk management governance natural hazards Northern Territory Summary Humans are ‘fire creatures’ that have used fire for millennia to shape local environments to diverse purposes. Our capacity for combustion has also forced global climatic changes and rendered the planet increasingly flammable, creating the conditions for progressively higher impact bushfires now and into the future. Meanwhile, governments in fire-prone countries such as Australia have continued to allow settlements to be established (and re-established) in wildland–urban interfaces. Like other ‘natural hazards’, bushfire is thereby a social phenomenon bound up with human values, practices and decisions. But, while studies of the social dimensions of ‘natural hazards’ are steadily rising, this scholarship has rarely addressed natural hazard management practitioners directly, precisely those authorised and entrusted to intervene in the distribution of hazard probabilities and consequences. This paper seeks to help remediate this research gap, illustrating how cultural, ecological, economic and political factors thoroughly condition hazard management and modes of intervention. Drawing on a case study in the Northern Territory’s Greater Darwin region, this paper suggests not only that examining such sociocultural realities provides new insights into hazards and their distribution, but also that attention to such issues is crucial to understanding our flammable future in the Anthropocene. Language eng DOI 10.1080/14649365.2017.1285423 Field of Research 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology 1604 Human Geography 2002 Cultural Studies Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2017, Informa UK Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30091552 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Research Institute Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 28 Feb 2017, 13:40:24 EST Wed, 01 Mar 2017, 04:00:07 EST Wed, 01 Mar 2017, 07:51:48 EST Fri, 21 Apr 2017, 13:51:09 EST Thu, 18 May 2017, 06:06:47 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 10:39:39 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 10:42:46 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 10:43:24 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 10:45:22 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 8 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 28 Feb 2017, 13:40:24 EST

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