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"Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Management Strategies highlights the urgent need for new methods to prepare and mitigate the effects of these events. Using a multidisciplinary, socio-ecological approach, the book discusses the roots of the problem, presenting a new, innovative approach to wildfire mitigation based on the operational concept of Fire Smart Territory (FST). Under the guidance of its expert editors, the book highlights new ways to prevent and respond to extreme wildfire events and disasters through sustainable development, thus revealing better management methods and increasing protection of both the natural environment and the vulnerable communities within it"--

Wildfires. --- Wildfire risk. --- Risk, Wildfire --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Fires

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Integrates both the natural and social sciences in addressing the issues of fire management and policy.

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Wildfire fighters --- Fire ecology --- Wildfires --- Wildland firefighters --- Fire fighters --- Ecopyrology --- Fires --- Fire --- Ecology --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Environmental aspects --- Prevention and control --- Strohmaier, David J.

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This book is the first to apply the new discipline of evolutionary fire ecology to a particular region: Florida and the southeastern coastal plain.

Forest fires --- Wildfires --- Fire ecology --- Ecopyrology --- Fires --- Fire --- Ecology --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Natural disasters --- Deforestation --- Fire weather --- Environmental aspects

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Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily with humans and their property. This edited volume addresses this problem and its potential solutions from an interdisciplinary perceptive, with contributions from authors in public policy, sociology, economics, ecology, computer modeling, planning, and ecology. The first section of the book addresses institutional and policy aspects, including chapters on national fire policy in the United States, local fire planning and policy, smart growth approaches to planning in fire zones, and institutional roadblocks to fuels management. The second section deals with economic aspects, including chapters on the role of information and disclosure of hazards in real estate markets, methods of underwriting fire insurance, and the consequences of state-mandated fire insurers of last resort. The third section deals with community level involvement in fire management, addressing a wide range of issues including models of community engagement, criteria for success, and approaches for institutionalizing this process, both in the US and abroad. The final section deals with management and ecology and includes chapters on the predicted effects of climate change on wildfire activity, new computer modeling tools for mitigating fire risk, and complex institutional mechanisms behind large-fire suppression in the US. It addresses institutional and policy aspects, economic aspects, community level involvement in fire management, and the management and ecology of wildfires.

Wildfires --- Prevention and control. --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Fires --- Business & Economics --- Science --- Management of land & natural resources. --- Fire services. --- Environmental economics. --- Natural resources. --- Economics --- General. --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Environmental quality --- Economic aspects --- Environmental aspects