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Living with Fire Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-First Century

By: Sara E Jensen and Guy R McPherson
180 pages, Figs
Living with Fire
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About this book

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Uncertainty and Change 1. Wildland Fire in the West: The Big Picture 2. Fanning the Flames: Human Influences on Fire Regimes 3. The Failed State of Fire Suppression 4. Logging the Forests to Save Them 5. Tools for Living with Fire 6. Policy Solutions Notes Index

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Biography

Sara E. Jensen is Private Lands Conservation Associate with Defenders of Wildlife. Guy R. McPherson, Professor of Natural Resources and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, is author of Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management among other books.
By: Sara E Jensen and Guy R McPherson
180 pages, Figs
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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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