Global Application of Prescribed Fire
eBook - ePub

Global Application of Prescribed Fire

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Global Application of Prescribed Fire

About this book

Global Application of Prescribed Fire provides a first-hand perspective of the various methods and ways people around the world view and use prescribed fire. It covers the logistics, constraints and social dynamics surrounding the intentional use and application of fire by humans, and demonstrates how, why, when and where prescribed fire is used in different regions.

Written by international experts, the book has four key objectives: explore new techniques, ideas and thoughts on how to apply prescribed fire from a global perspective; provide regional case studies covering issues that may constrain or enhance prescribed fire projects; stimulate cross-cultural conversations about how fires function in ecosystems; and relate prescribed fire to wildfire regimes with implications for protecting life and property, as well as sustaining local fire cultures and unique fire-dependent flora and fauna.

Global Application of Prescribed Fire enhances our understanding and knowledge about the application of prescribed fire. This comprehensive book will provide fire practitioners, researchers, agencies and policymakers with key ecological and managerial insight of how prescribed fires are conducted around the globe.

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Yes, you can access Global Application of Prescribed Fire by John R. Weir, J Derek Scasta, John R. Weir,J Derek Scasta in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Ecology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. List of contributors
  7. Acronyms
  8. 1 - Introduction to global application of prescribed fire
  9. 2 - Fire in the boreal forest, north-east British Columbia, Canada: putting fire out on the land
  10. 3 - Burning in the Pampa and Cerrado in Brazil
  11. 4 - Sanctioned burning in sub-Saharan Africa
  12. 5 - Forged by fire: burning the Australian tropical savannas
  13. 6 - The (re)emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia
  14. 7 - Fire in pines of the Southeastern US
  15. Colour plates
  16. 8 - The West wasn’t burning …
  17. 9 - Pyric legacy: prescribed burning in the Flint Hills region, USA
  18. 10 - An NGO and prescribed fire: The Nature Conservancy’s Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (USA)
  19. 11 - Prescribed burn associations: US landowners getting fire on the ground
  20. 12 - Fire management in heather-dominated heaths and moorlands of north-west Europe
  21. 13 - Prescribed burning in the European Mediterranean Basin
  22. 14 - Possibility of introducing prescribed burning in Mongolian rangelands
  23. 15 - Prescribed fires of the future: technology and fire
  24. 16 - Epilogue
  25. Glossary
  26. Index