
Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters
Root Causes and New Management Strategies
Description
Key Features
- Reveals the complexity of extreme wildfire events and disasters in an accessible, comprehensive and multidisciplinary way
- Reviews the ground-breaking concept of Fire Smart Territory (FST) which offers an opportunity to reduce wildfire occurrence and severity through measures that promote sustainable development
- Proposes a new perspective on disaster risk reduction to help researchers, planners and professionals successfully adapt their methods for mitigating current and future issues
Readership
Wildfire ecologists, Natural resource managers, Environmentalists, Land managers, General ecologists, Agronomists and Foresters, Forestry Service professionals, Researchers in industry and academia
Table of Contents
Part 1. Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Examples and Global Trends
1. Extreme wildfire events: the definition
2. Extreme Wildfires and Disasters Around the World: Lessons to be LearnedPart 2. Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: The Root of the Problem
3. Weather and climate: Same driver, different scales
4. The Relation of Landscape Characteristics, Human Settlements, Spacial Planning, and Fuel Management with Extreme Wildfires
5. Safety enhancement in extreme wildfire events
6. Firefighting Approaches and Extreme WildfiresPart 3: Towards a New Approach to Cope with Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters
7. The suppression model fragilities: the "firefighting trap"
8. Mitigation and preparedness as measures to cope with extreme wildfires and disasters (Alt Title "Social Science contributions to understanding human response to wildfire" )
9. Resident and Community Recovery After WildfiresPart 4: How to Cope with the Problem of Extreme Wildfires and Disasters
10. Wildfire policies contribution to foster extreme wildfires
11. Fire Smart Territory as an Innovative Approach to Wildfire Risk Reduction
12. How to Create Change in the Wildfire Management Policies
13. What We Can Do Differently about the Wildfire Problem: An Overview
Product details
- No. of pages: 284
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 22, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128157220
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128157213
About the Authors
Fantina Tedim
Affiliations and Expertise
Vittorio Leone
Affiliations and Expertise
Tara Mcgee
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