Conservation Ecology: Cross-cultural conflicts in fire management in northern Australia: not so black and white.: Table 2

Table 2. Actual system of acquisition and use of knowledge in relation to fire management that is typically adopted by European land managers, compared with the traditional Aboriginal system.

Fire management issues	European	Aboriginal

Objectives (desired ecological outcomes)	often ambiguous, not well defined	often unclear, not well defined
Knowledge acquisition	tradition, beliefs, and personal experience	tradition, beliefs, and personal experience
Knowledge dynamics	preserve old, resist new	preserve old, resist new
Biodiversity	accepted, but misunderstood	not understood or accepted