Proceedings Of The Third International Symposium On Fire Economics Planning And Policy

Author : Armando González Cabán
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437933734

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Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy by Armando González Cabán Pdf

Covers these topics: regional, national, and global vision of forest fires: common problems and approaches, theory and models for strategic fire planning, economic analysis and modeling for fire mgmt., forest fires and sustainable forest mgmt., public policies and forest mgmt., hazardous fuels treatment, wildland fire use and fire suppression activities, examples of fire mgmt. plans and strategic fire resource allocation, and a round table on the role of international organizations in forest fire solutions. Representatives from international organizations with fire protection responsibilities in 12 countries presented and discussed their experiences on the same issues. Charts and tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:774425884

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Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dean Lueck,Karen M. Bradshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136520594

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Wildfire Policy by Dean Lueck,Karen M. Bradshaw Pdf

During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire. The only modern legal work on wildfire, the book brings together leading scholars to consider questions such as: How can public policy address the effects of climate change on wildfire, and wildfire on climate change? Are the environmental and fiscal costs of ex ante prevention measures justified? What are the appropriate levels of prevention and suppression responsibility borne by private, state, and federal actors? Can tort liability provide a solution for realigning the grossly distorted incentives that currently exist for private landowners and government firefighters? Do the existing incentives in wildfire institutions provide incentives for efficient private and collective action and how might they be improved?

Author : William P. Stewart,Daniel R. Williams,Linda E. Kruger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400758025

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Place-Based Conservation by William P. Stewart,Daniel R. Williams,Linda E. Kruger Pdf

The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough examination of the topic, dividing its exploration into four broad areas. Place-Based Conservation provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners to help build the conceptual grounding necessary to understand and to effectively practice place-based conservation.

Author : Jelte van Andel,James Aronson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118223154

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Restoration Ecology by Jelte van Andel,James Aronson Pdf

Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr. Steven Whisnant of Texas A&M University and Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration. Since 2006, when the first edition of this book appeared, major advances have taken place in restoration science and in the practice of ecological restoration. Both are now accepted as key components of the increasingly urgent search for sustainability at global, national, and community levels – hence the phrase 'New Frontier' in the title. While the first edition focused on ecosystems and landscapes in Europe, this new edition covers biomes and contexts all over the world. Several new chapters deal with broad issues such as biological invasions, climate change, and agricultural land abandonment as they relate to restoration science and ecological restoration. Case studies are included from Australia, North America, and the tropics. This is an accessible textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate level students, and early career scientists. The book also provides a solid scientific background for managers, volunteers, and mid-career professionals involved in the practice of ecological restoration. Review of the first edition: "I suspect that this volume will find its way onto the shelves of many restoration researchers and practitioners and will be used as a key text in graduate courses, where it will help fill a large void. My own copy is already heavily bookmarked, and will be a constant source of research ideas and lecture material." (Environmental Conservation) Companion Website: A companion website with downloadable figures is available at www.wiley.com/go/vanandel/restorationecology

Author : Geoffrey Cox,Brian Langford,International Association for Fire Safety Science
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fire
ISBN : 9781851667192

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Fire Safety Science by Geoffrey Cox,Brian Langford,International Association for Fire Safety Science Pdf

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 8-12 July 1991.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : MINN:31951D029812192

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Fire Social Science Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101490971

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General Technical Report PNW-GTR by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jon E. Keeley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521824910

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Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems by Jon E. Keeley Pdf

Explores the role of fire in Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, providing unique insights into the assembly and evolutionary convergence of ecosystems.

Author : Thomas T. Veblen,William L. Baker,Gloria Montenegro,Thomas W. Swetnam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387217109

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Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas by Thomas T. Veblen,William L. Baker,Gloria Montenegro,Thomas W. Swetnam Pdf

Both fire and climatic variability have monumental impacts on the dynamics of temperate ecosystems. These impacts can sometimes be extreme or devastating as seen in recent El Nino/La Nina cycles and in uncontrolled fire occurrences. This volume brings together research conducted in western North and South America, areas of a great deal of collaborative work on the influence of people and climate change on fire regimes. In order to give perspective to patterns of change over time, it emphasizes the integration of paleoecological studies with studies of modern ecosystems. Data from a range of spatial scales, from individual plants to communities and ecosystems to landscape and regional levels, are included. Contributions come from fire ecology, paleoecology, biogeography, paleoclimatology, landscape and ecosystem ecology, ecological modeling, forest management, plant community ecology and plant morphology. The book gives a synthetic overview of methods, data and simulation models for evaluating fire regime processes in forests, shrublands and woodlands and assembles case studies of fire, climate and land use histories. The unique approach of this book gives researchers the benefits of a north-south comparison as well as the integration of paleoecological histories, current ecosystem dynamics and modeling of future changes.

Author : Ian Douglas,Emily J. Flies,Jennifer N. W. Lim
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832506127

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Urban Ecology and Human Health by Ian Douglas,Emily J. Flies,Jennifer N. W. Lim Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816532148

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Between Two Fires by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.

Author : Olla, Phillip
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599046266

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Commerce in Space: Infrastructures, Technologies, and Applications by Olla, Phillip Pdf

"This book explains the role of earth observation satellite initiatives to meet information needs. It details the importance of the space infrastructure to deliver IT capabilities such as mobile broadband Internet and mobile communication connectivity; it also offers a review of how space technology can influence the future of IT architecture in health, education, logistics, business, and accounting"--Provided by publisher.

Author : David Chandler,Jon Coaffee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317655992

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The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience by David Chandler,Jon Coaffee Pdf

Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and rural planning, international aid provision and the prevention of and responses to natural and man-made disasters. Edited by leading academic authorities from a number of disciplines, this is the first handbook to deal with resilience as a new conceptual approach to understanding and addressing a range of interdependent global challenges. The Handbook is divided into nine sections: Introduction: contested paradigms of resilience; the challenges of resilience; governing uncertainty; resilience and neoliberalism; environmental concerns and climate change adaptation; urban planning; disaster risk reduction and response; international security and insecurity; the policy and practices of international development. Highlighting how resilience-thinking is increasingly transforming international policy-making and government and institutional practices, this book will be an indispensable source of information for students, academics and the wider public interested in resilience, international relations and international security.

Author : Douglas Paton,Fantina Tedim
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780398088446

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WILDFIRE AND COMMUNITY by Douglas Paton,Fantina Tedim Pdf

Wildfires represent a growing threat to environments, to people, communities, and to societies worldwide, particularly in the United States, Southern Europe, and Australia. Recognition of this growing risk has highlighted a need to develop people's capacity to adapt to annually occurring events that could increase in frequency and severity over the coming years and decades. The goal of ensuring sustained levels of protective measures in communities susceptible to wildfire hazard consequences has proved to be elusive. This book examines why this is so and identifies ways in which sustained levels of preparedness can be facilitated. Major topics include: wildfire preparedness and resiliency in community contexts; socially disastrous landscape fires in southeastern Australia; landscape typology of residential wildfire risk; proactive human response to wildfires outbreak; forest fires in wildland-urban interface, wildfire risk management; “stay or go” policy in the line of fire; social dimensions of forest fire; the influence of community diversity; evaluating a community engagement initiative; response to fire threats; social media and resiliency; and building on lessons learned. Additional information includes the landscape fires in southeastern Australia, wildfire risk management in Portugal; fire preparedness in Greece, Cyprus, and the Pine Barrens in the northeastern United States. The findings of research programs being conducted in the United States, Australia, Europe, India and South America are presented. The book includes case studies on the analysis and proposed actions of the wildland-urban interface being faced by Central Chile and South America. This book will provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the wildfire preparedness research and its application to the development of risk communications and public education programs.