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Introduction Increasing conflagrations of forests and other lands throughout the world during the 1980's and 1990's have made fires in forest and other vegetation emerge as an important global concern. Both the number and severity of wildfires (accidental fires) and the application of fire for land-use change, seem to have increased dramatically compared to previous decades of the twentieth century. The adverse consequences of extensive wildfires cross national boundaries and have global impacts. Fire regimes are changing with climate variability and population dynamics.

Forest fires --- Fire management --- Prevention and control --- Remote sensing.

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Fire ecology. --- Fire management. --- Fires --- Management, Fire --- Ecopyrology --- Fire --- Ecology --- Management --- Environmental aspects

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Fire-induced smoke influences the safe evacuation of occupants and firefighters' ability to extinguish a fire. About 80% of deaths in fires were caused by toxic smoke, according to statistics. Hence, how to control smoke is of great importance in order to reduce fire hazards. In this Special Issue, the scope was to gather original, fundamental and applied research concerning experimental, theoretical, computational and case studies that contribute towards the understanding of fire-induced smoke.

Smoke prevention. --- Fire management. --- Fires --- Management, Fire --- Prevention of smoke --- Smoke --- Smoke abatement --- Fume control --- Nuisances --- Sanitation --- Management --- Prevention

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Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service a

Wildfires --- Forests and forestry --- Forest products industry --- Prevention and control --- History. --- History --- Fire management --- Political aspects --- Environmental aspects --- United States. --- West (U.S.) --- Environmental conditions.

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"Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject in science and policy debates about global trends in land conversion, climate change, and human health. Persistent environmental orthodoxies reduce complex burning traditions to overly simplistic representations of environmental destruction, degradation, and loss while reinforcing existing social inequities involving smallholders. Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing World advocates for a more inclusive and pluralistic fire ecology, a shift from the paradigmatic globalized version of fire science and management towards research and management that embraces anthropogenic fire regimes and broader understandings of the ways humans interact with fire. The authors present new evaluations of human interactions with fires in contexts of changing environmental conditions. Through deep description and analysis of knowledge and practices enacted by local communities who ignite, manage, and extinguish fires, this collection of case studies supports proactive local and regional efforts to adapt amidst continually changing social and ecological circumstances"--

Prescribed burning. --- Ethnobiology. --- Fire ecology. --- Ecopyrology --- Fires --- Fire --- Ecology --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Controlled burning --- Field burning --- Planned burning --- Prescribed fire --- Fire management --- Vegetation management --- Burning of land --- Environmental aspects --- Ethnobiology