Australia Burning :Fire Ecology, Policy and Management Issues

Publication subTitle :Fire Ecology, Policy and Management Issues

Author: Cary Geoffrey; Lindenmayer David; Dovers Stephen  

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING‎

Publication year: 2003

E-ISBN: 9780643090965

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780643069268

Subject: X928.7 fire and explosion accidents

Keyword: 环境保护管理,环境科学、安全科学

Language: ENG

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Description

Integrates both the natural and social sciences in addressing the issues of fire management and policy.

Chapter

6 Ecology and environment: a discussion summary

Part II: Fire behaviour and fire regime science

7 Fire behaviour: integrating science and management

8 Sensitivity of fire regimes to management

9 Fire behaviour, forest management, and biodiversity conservation

10 The role of fuel moisture dynamics in determining bushfire behaviour

11 The role of fire behaviour and fire regime science – a practitioner’s perspective

12 Fire behaviour and fire regime science: a discussion summary

Part III: People and property

13 People and property: a researcher’s perspective

14 Bushfire preparedness of residents: insights from socio-psychological research

15 Protection of people and property: towards an integrated risk management model

16 Fire policy making: a social scientist’s perspective

17 Risk management, communication and research

18 People and property: a discussion summary

Part IV: Policy, institutional arrangements and the legal framework

19 Institutions and bushfires: fragmentation, reliance and ambiguity

20 Economic rationalism, fear of litigation and the perpetuation of disaster fires

21 Policy, institutions and the law

22 Fire policy: an insurance perspective

23 Connectivity

24 Policy, institutional arrangements and the legal framework: a discussion summary

Part V: Indigenous land and fire management

25 Frameworks to support Indigenous managers: the key to fire futures

26 Fire in a jointly managed landscape: fire at Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park

27 Yanyuwa classical burning regimes, Indigenous science and cross-cultural communication

28 Using and sharing Indigenous knowledge

29 Indigenous knowledge – can it improve fire management in the Sydney region?

30 Indigenous land management

31 Indigenous land and fire management: a discussion summary

Part VI: Synthesis

32 Observations on fire ecology

33 Perspectives on fire research

34 Lessons from the COAG disaster management review

35 Learning to live with fire

36 ‘Australia burning’: a discussion summary

37 Research and policy priorities: a synthesis

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