Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Management Strategies 1st Edition Fantina Tedim – eBook PDF

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0128157216
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0128157213
• Author:  Fantina Tedim, Vittorio Leone, Tara K. McGee

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.

• Reveals the complexity of extreme wildfire events and disasters in an accessible, comprehensive and multidisciplinary way
• Reviews the ground-breaking concept of Fire Smart Territory (FST) which offers an opportunity to reduce wildfire occurrence and severity through measures that promote sustainable development
• Proposes a new perspective on disaster risk reduction to help researchers, planners and professionals successfully adapt their methods for mitigating current and future issues

Table of contents:

Part 1. Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Examples and Global Trends

1. Extreme wildfire events: the definition

2. Extreme Wildfires and Disasters Around the World: Lessons to be Learned

Part 2. Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: The Root of the Problem

3. Weather and climate: Same driver, different scales

4. The Relation of Landscape Characteristics, Human Settlements, Spacial Planning, and Fuel Management with Extreme Wildfires

5. Safety enhancement in extreme wildfire events

6. Firefighting Approaches and Extreme Wildfires

Part 3: Towards a New Approach to Cope with Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters

7. The suppression model fragilities: the “firefighting trap”

8. Mitigation and preparedness as measures to cope with extreme wildfires and disasters (Alt Title “Social Science contributions to understanding human response to wildfire” )

9. Resident and Community Recovery After Wildfires

Part 4: How to Cope with the Problem of Extreme Wildfires and Disasters

10. Wildfire policies contribution to foster extreme wildfires

11. Fire Smart Territory as an Innovative Approach to Wildfire Risk Reduction

12. How to Create Change in the Wildfire Management Policies

13. What We Can Do Differently about the Wildfire Problem: An Overview

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