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Living With Fire : Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-first Century - Sara E. Jensen

Living With Fire

Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-first Century

By: Sara E. Jensen, Guy R. McPherson

Hardcover | 4 August 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. Written in clear language, it will help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, Living with Fire offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.
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"A well-written polemic... The authors provide a particularly good treatment of the diversity of roles that fire plays in different ecosystems." Qtly Review Of Biology

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