Wildfire hazards, risks, and disasters
More than 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, but other causes include lighting, drought, wind and changing weather conditions, underground coal fires, and even volcanic activity. Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, one of nine volumes in the Elsevier Hazards and Disasters series, pro...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Wildfires: international persectives on their social-ecological implications -- 2. Social science findings in the United States -- 3. Wildfire: a Canadian perspective -- 4. Current wildfire risk status and forecast in Chile: progress and future challenges -- 5. Forest fires in Europe: facts and challenges -- 6. Wildfires: an Australian perspective -- 7. Fostering community participation to wildfire: experiences from Indonesia -- 8. Discourse on Taiwanese forest fires -- 9. Wildfires in India: tools and hazards -- 10. System of wildfires monitoring in Russia -- 11. Wildland fire danger rating and early warning systems -- 12. Postfire ecosystem restoration -- 13. Ensuring that we can see the wood and the trees: growing the capacity for ecological wildfire risk management | |
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