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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/IN210100055
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Has it always burned so hot? Fuel and fire in southeast Australian forests. Indigenous cultural burning has been raised as a way of mitigating against climate-driven catastrophic bushfires in southeast Australian forests. It is argued that returning an Indigenous style fire regime will keep landscape fuel loads low, thus reducing the frequency and intensity of bushfires and mitigating against large catastrophic bushfires. While based on enormous reservoirs of traditional fire knowledge in Indigenous communities, this assertion needs empirical testing within these highly flammable forests. This project aims to empirically test how fuel loads, fuel type, fire frequency and fire intensity have changed over the past 500 years in southeast Australian forests, spanning the period of indigenous to British management.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2021
End Date: 05-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Indigenous
Funding Amount: $454,044.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Natural Hazards | Quaternary Environments | Forestry Fire Management | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments | Forest and Woodlands Land Management |
