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The domestication of fire as a social-ecological regime shift

  • Biggs R
  • Boonstra W
  • Peterson G
  • et al.
Past Global Change Magazine (2016) 24(1) 22-23
DOI: 10.22498/pages.24.1.22
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Abstract

Social-ecological regime shifts involve large, often abrupt, reorganizations in interlinked social and ecological systems. The domestication of fire illustrates how physiological and social changes enabled humans to start actively controlling fire, dramatically reshaping the environment and society itself.

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Biggs, R., Boonstra, W., Peterson, G., & Schlüter, M. (2016). The domestication of fire as a social-ecological regime shift. Past Global Change Magazine, 24(1), 22–23. https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.24.1.22

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