Living with fire : fire ecology and policy for the twenty-first century / / Sara E. Jensen, Guy R. McPherson

• Autore: Jensen Sara E. <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 180 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.37/9
• Soggetto topico: Wildfires; Fire ecology; Fire management - Government policy - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: 21st century; american; benefits of fire; coping with fires; dangers of fire; ecological processes; ecosystems; environmental impact; fire controversy; fire ecology; fire fighters; fire management; fire policies; fire professionals; fire prone areas; fire science; fire; forest fires; general public; healthy ecosystems; historical account; human condition; nonfiction; north america; policy makers; political processes; residents; scientists; textbooks; wildfires
• Altri autori: McPhersonGuy R <1960-> (Guy Randall)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-168) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Uncertainty and Change -- 1. Wildland Fire in the West: The Big Picture -- 2. Fanning the Flames: Human Influences on Fire Regimes -- 3. The Failed State of Fire Suppression -- 4. Logging the Forests to Save Them -- 5. Tools for Living with Fire -- 6. Policy Solutions -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. Written in clear language, it will help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, Living with Fire offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.
• Titolo autorizzato: Living with fire
• ISBN: 1-281-75272-X; 9786611752729; 0-520-94251-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782565003321
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