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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