Indigenous fire practices in Wasur National Park Merauke, South Papua

BIO Web of Conferences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 175, P. 03010 - 03010

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Indigenous communities worldwide have traditionally employed fire as a land management tool to promote ecological enhancement. However, these practices are increasingly threatened by socio-economic changes, leading rise in uncontrolled wildfires. This research seeks understand the traditional burning of Kanume people utilizing knowledge framework. A qualitative case study design was employed, with data gathered through in-depth interviews, observation, and document analysis. Participants included customary elders practitioners within community. The results reveal that is an integral component people's farming, management, hunting practices. Shifts related now contribute wildfires, resulting degradation essential natural resources. These wildfires stem from both internal community dynamics external factors. Addressing challenges inherent indigenous critical for sustainable livelihood ecological, socio-cultural, economic functions Wasur National Park

Language: Английский

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Integrating fire-smart fuels management with bioenergy benefits remote and Indigenous communities in Canada

Communications Earth & Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 6(1)

Published: May 8, 2025

Language: Английский

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Governing Wildfire Risk in Canada: The Rise of an Apparatus of Security

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 113(5), P. 1207 - 1223

Published: March 15, 2023

This article argues that the governance of wildfire risk in Canada is increasingly oriented toward through a security apparatus. As climate change complicates "problems" fast-expanding wildland–urban interface areas, fire managers and other actors seek shift fire-permitting, risk-based management style, even as balance between private public responsibility for protection gets renegotiated. approach, typified by FireSmart, characterized gradual, geographically uneven from state-centered suppression multiplicity assembled around an expectation promise economic freedom. These multiple shifts, we argue, reflect characteristic approach to governing Foucauldian "apparatus security," mechanism power seeks freedom indirect governmental intervention. Central emerging apparatus are three core rationalizing discourses focused on valorization individual's capacity protection, negotiation limits state institutions management, invitation live resiliently with wildfires embracing biophysical contingency. At stake complex politics which very ideas risk, responsibility, being, can be, reconstituted. Our analysis furthers poststructural geographies beyond.

Language: Английский

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Fire severity drives understory community dynamics and the recovery of culturally significant plants

Ecosphere, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(3)

Published: March 1, 2024

Abstract Anthropogenic influences are altering fire regimes worldwide, resulting in an increase the size and severity of wildfires. Simultaneously, throughout western North America, there is increasing recognition important role Indigenous stewardship shaping historical fire‐adapted ecosystems. However, limited understanding how ecosystems affected by or recover from contemporary “megafires,” particularly terms understory plant communities that critical to both biodiversity cultures. To address this gap, our collaborative study, partnership with Secwépemc First Nations, examined community recovery following a large, mixed‐severity wildfire burned dry mesic conifer forests British Columbia, Canada, focus on plants high cultural significance communities. measure effect continuous gradient across forest types, we conducted field assessments sampled 4 years postfire. We found native species richness were lowest areas at severity, distinct compositional differences between unburned those severity. These findings consistent types characterized regimes. In contrast, exotic increased dominant montane interior Douglas‐fir forests, closely associated Our study indicates recent megafires may be pushing outside their range variability, negative implications for ecosystem use these fire‐affected landscapes. also consistently higher diversity, richness, subalpine forests. Collectively, results provide strong evidence ecological low‐ moderate‐severity longstanding ongoing peoples As wildfires continue impact human communities, offers novel insights into values, while highlighting need support ethical research collaborations Indigenous‐led revitalization stewardship.

Language: Английский

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How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework

Fire Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: Aug. 27, 2024

Abstract Background Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS) is contested within settler-colonial contexts, where its development shaped by complex and dynamic socio-cultural, legal, political factors. This manuscript draws from the policy sciences to sketch out a “zone of interaction” between IFS state’s wildfire system. Drawing strategies bureaucracies, our goal illustrate patterns in this interaction,” identify implications for IFS, as well Peoples landscapes. Results insights Australian Canadian contexts governments are restoring lands reconciling with laws governance Peoples, we how interacts state. We do two ways. Figure 1 shows that state has three general dealing IFS: avoidance (ignoring IFS), coping (carefully considering sometimes accommodating learning (embracing IFS). document post-wildfire, there affective drivers move approach ; however, over time, public attention shifts away alternatives, strategy moves back either or (where required engage but cannot fully embrace it because institutional, tenure, jurisdictional issues, among other constraints). 2 documents six available bureaucracies which institutionalize , partially not IFS. Each these pathways details effects on practices, impacts people Conclusions To better support must look beyond institutionalization state, nest governance. An Indigenous-led can operate parallel develop innovative land-access arrangements Tribal Parks apply New structures engagement be designed space, grounded principle free prior informed consent (FPIC), explicit focus deconstructing power differences.

Language: Английский

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