LEADER 04442nam 22006495 450 001 9910254016903321 005 20200629174723.0 010 $a1-61091-997-1 010 $a1-61091-819-3 024 7 $a10.5822/978-1-61091-819-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000000881810 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-61091-819-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5508347 035 $a(PPN)220122903 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000881810 100 $a20171012d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|||8mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFirestorm $eHow Wildfire Will Shape Our Future /$fby Edward Struzik 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics :$cImprint: Island Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (Approx. 250 p.) 311 $a1-61091-818-5 311 $a1-61091-926-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-257). 327 $aThe beast awakens -- Inside the mind of a wildfire -- A history of fire suppression -- Visions of the Pyrocene -- Water on fire -- The big smoke -- Drought, disease, insects, and wildfire -- Fire on ice -- Agent of change -- Resilience and recovery. 330 $aFor two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire ?the Beast.? It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it?s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands? a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we?ve rarely seen before. This change is particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods. Our understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground, too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal with these challenges. In this book, the author visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. The author weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires. 606 $aEnvironment 606 $aNatural disasters 606 $aLandscape ecology 606 $aEcosystems 606 $aEnvironment, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U00009 606 $aNatural Hazards$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G32000 606 $aLandscape Ecology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19058 606 $aEcosystems$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L1904X 607 $aNorth America$2fast 607 $aCanada$2fast 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aHistory. 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aEnvironment. 615 0$aNatural disasters. 615 0$aLandscape ecology. 615 0$aEcosystems. 615 14$aEnvironment, general. 615 24$aNatural Hazards. 615 24$aLandscape Ecology. 615 24$aEcosystems. 676 $a333.7 700 $aStruzik$b Edward$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063194 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254016903321 996 $aFirestorm$92530908 997 $aUNINA