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Global Application of Prescribed Fire
John R. Weir, J Derek Scasta, John R. Weir,J Derek Scasta
- 304 pages
- English
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Global Application of Prescribed Fire
John R. Weir, J Derek Scasta, John R. Weir,J Derek Scasta
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- Acronyms
- 1 - Introduction to global application of prescribed fire
- 2 - Fire in the boreal forest, north-east British Columbia, Canada: putting fire out on the land
- 3 - Burning in the Pampa and Cerrado in Brazil
- 4 - Sanctioned burning in sub-Saharan Africa
- 5 - Forged by fire: burning the Australian tropical savannas
- 6 - The (re)emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia
- 7 - Fire in pines of the Southeastern US
- Colour plates
- 8 - The West wasnât burning âŚ
- 9 - Pyric legacy: prescribed burning in the Flint Hills region, USA
- 10 - An NGO and prescribed fire: The Nature Conservancyâs Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (USA)
- 11 - Prescribed burn associations: US landowners getting fire on the ground
- 12 - Fire management in heather-dominated heaths and moorlands of north-west Europe
- 13 - Prescribed burning in the European Mediterranean Basin
- 14 - Possibility of introducing prescribed burning in Mongolian rangelands
- 15 - Prescribed fires of the future: technology and fire
- 16 - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index