Handbook of Fire and the Environment Impacts and Mitigation

About this book

The fundamental purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness about environmental impacts of fire and fire suppression, primarily within the fire engineering and firefighting communities, but also within the environmental engineering and planning disciplines. The Handbook provides readers with a fundamental understanding of the problem and its magnitude and includes a set of tools and methods for assessing environmental, social and financial impacts, and a set of tools for identifying and selecting appropriate mitigation options.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction and overview (Meacham and M. McNamee)
Chapter 2. Historically significant fires (M. McNamee, Marlair and Truchot)
Chapter 3. Fire fundamentals (Gorbett and Kozhumal)
Chapter 4. Fire and smoke modeling (Wegrzynski and Lipecki)
Chapter 5. Emission measurements (Guillaume)
Chapter 6. Fires in enclosures (R. McNamee and Sandvik)
Chapter 7. Wildland fire (Filkov, Cawson, Swan and Penman)
Chapter 8. Firefighting chemicals (Gonzalez-Prieto)
Chapter 9. Tools and techniques for impact analysis (M. McNamee, Butry, Kneifel)
Chapter 10. Mitigation strategies for buildings (Meacham)
Chapter 11. Mitigation strategies for waste fires (Fjellgaard Mikalsen, Storesund)
Chapter 13. Mitigation strategies for Wildfires (Parkins, Cawson, Pickering Penman)
Chapter 12. Sustainable and fire resilient built environment (SAFR-BE) (Meacham and M. McNamee)

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Biography

Brian J. Meacham is the Managing Principal of Meacham Associates in the USA. He has more than 35 years of professional experience in academia, consulting and industry. He focuses primarily on risk-informed and performance-based solutions to fire and regulatory challenges in the built environment. Brian is Chair of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), Chair of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Fire Risk Assessment Methods, a Past President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), and a past Chair of the Inter-jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee (IRCC). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Connecticut and Massachusetts, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers (UK), a registered European Engineer (EUR ING), a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and a Fulbright Global Scholar.

Margaret McNamee is Professor in Fire Safety Engineering at Lund University in Sweden. She has her technical expertise in understanding and characterizing the environmental impact of fires and has worked in the field of fire and combustion research for more than 30 years. Among other things, Margaret is active in the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) and was the first author of the IAFSS position paper on fire safety research challenges for the future - IAFSS Agenda 2030 for a Fire Safe World.