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Wildland Fires and Air Pollution

2009 Nature
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Release : 2009
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Wildland Fires and Air Pollution by : Andrzej Bytnerowicz

Download or read book Wildland Fires and Air Pollution written by Andrzej Bytnerowicz. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildland fires are one of the most devastating and terrifying forces of nature. While their effects are mostly destructive they also help with regeneration of forests and other ecosystems. Low-intensity fires clear accumulating biomass reducing risk of catastrophic crown fires and can be used as an effective management tool. This book presents current understanding of wildland fires and air quality as well as their effects on human health, forests and other ecosystems. in the first section of the book the basics of wildland fires and resulting emissions are presented from the perspective of changing global climate, air quality impairment and effects on environmental and human health and security. in the second section, effects of wildland fires on air quality, visibility and human health in various regions of the Earth are discussed. The third section of the book deals with complex issues of the ecological impacts of fires and air pollution in forests and chaparral in North America. The fourth section discusses various management issues facing land and fire managers which are related to wildfires, use of prescribed fires, and air quality. This section also presents various modeling systems used for describing fire dangers and behavior as well as smoke and air pollution predictions applied in the risk assessment analysis. The book concludes with a series of expert recommendations for wildland fire and atmospheric research.

Wildland Fires and the Environment

1999 Fire ecology
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Release : 1999
Genre : Fire ecology
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Book Synopsis Wildland Fires and the Environment by : Joel S. Levine

Download or read book Wildland Fires and the Environment written by Joel S. Levine. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fire Environment Concept

1972 Forest fires
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Release : 1972
Genre : Forest fires
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Book Synopsis The Fire Environment Concept by : Clive M. Countryman

Download or read book The Fire Environment Concept written by Clive M. Countryman. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forest Fires

2001-03-01 Technology & Engineering
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Release : 2001-03-01
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Forest Fires by : Edward A. Johnson

Download or read book Forest Fires written by Edward A. Johnson. This book was released on 2001-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.

Current International Perspectives on Wildland Fires, Mankind and the Environment

2015 Fire ecology
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Release : 2015
Genre : Fire ecology
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Book Synopsis Current International Perspectives on Wildland Fires, Mankind and the Environment by : Brigitte Leblon

Download or read book Current International Perspectives on Wildland Fires, Mankind and the Environment written by Brigitte Leblon. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildland fire has and continues to impact humans and our environment both positively and negatively. Being able to co-exist with fire on the landscape is becoming increasingly more important as man expands his use of the world's ecosystems. This book is the latest contribution dedicated towards the scholarship surrounding the subject of wildland fires. The present volume consists of a collection of essays covering fire science and technology topics that support the management of wildfires and prescribed fires written by specialists in their respective fields. The nine chapters cover the following: (i) the need of fire and the consequences of policies of attempted fire exclusion to try and manage the wildfire problem; (ii) a review of the current state-of-knowledge of the role of remote sensing technologies in managing wildfires; (iii) a description of how the Canadian system of forest fire danger rating has been introduced into Argentina; (iv) the rationale for adding an "QA" for anchor point(s) to the LCES (Lookout(s)-- Communication(s) -- Escape routes -- Safety zone(s)) safety system for wildland firefighters, thus denoting LACES; (v) a case study involving the use of cloud-based geographic information system on the 2013 Silver Fire in southern California; (vi) the deaths that have occurred amongst rural firefighters and members of the public in Greece since 1997; (vii and viii) two separate overviews of the history, ecology and management of two large Argentinian regions of South America; and (ix) an assessment undertaken of wildland firefighter fatalities in South Africa over the past twenty years or so.

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