Qualitative analysis demonstrates Indigenous fire stewardship and ecological reciprocity in suburban environments, highlighting frameworks for planetary renewal.
Key Points
To investigate how Noongar knowledge and relational belonging to Country can guide ecological care, reciprocity, and restorative fire practices amid breached planetary boundaries.
Synthesized Indigenous Noongar knowledge systems alongside theories from the environmental humanities.
Analyzed the socio-ecological barriers created by suburban concepts of ownership, consumption, and high-carbon living in Australia.
Reframed ecological limits from restrictive barriers into necessary, foundational conditions for systemic balance and regeneration.
Developed a community-oriented educational model that shifts fire management from risk suppression to relational, socio-ecological tending.