@book{gammage_biggest_2012,
	title = {The {Biggest} {Estate} on {Earth}: {How} {Aborigines} {Made} {Australia}},
	isbn = {978-1-74331-132-5},
	shorttitle = {The {Biggest} {Estate} on {Earth}},
	url = {https://cat2.lib.unimelb.edu.au:443/record=b4185968~S2},
	abstract = {Reveals the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people in presettlement Australia  Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park, with extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands, and abundant wildlife. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than most people have ever realized. For more than a decade, he has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and this book reveals how. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires Australians now experience. With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, this book rewrites the history of the continent, with huge implications for today.},
	language = {en},
	publisher = {Allen \& Unwin},
	author = {Gammage, Bill},
	year = {2012},
	keywords = {Landscape architecture, Urban and cultural heritage},
}

@book{gammage_country_2021,
	address = {Port Melbourne, Victoria},
	title = {Country: future fire, future farming},
	isbn = {9781760761554},
	shorttitle = {Country},
	abstract = {"What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever."-- Page 4 of cover},
	language = {eng},
	publisher = {Thames \& Hudson},
	author = {Gammage, Bill and Pascoe, Bruce and Neale, Margo},
	year = {2021},
}