Coexisting with Fire? A Commentary on the Scale Politics of Adaptation. (30th September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: HOWITT, RICHARD
• Is Part Of: Geographical research. Volume 52:Number 1(2014)
• Page Start: 61
• Page End: 64
• Publication Date: 2013-09-30
• Subjects: Geography -- Research -- Periodicals; Geography -- Australasia -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; Physical geography -- Periodicals; 304.2072
• DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12036
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-5863

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Australia's experience of bushfire in changing environmental, economic and social circumstances raises the need for learning to live with fire risk more effectively. But just what might it mean to coexist with fire? Rather than addressing the particular risk contexts created on fire grounds during fire events, this brief commentary considers the need to rescale questions of coexistence with fire and to reconsider just what coexistence with and adaptations to fire risk in Australian landscapes might mean.</p> </abstract>