Forests on fire

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5421, 1999, Pages 1782-1783

  Goldammer, Johann G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE PROTECTION; FOREST; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST WORKER; LAND USE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0033546058     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (12)

1. J. E. Keeley, C. J. Fotheringham, M. Morais, ibid., p. 1829.
2. M. A. Cochrane et al., Science 284, 1832 (1999).
3. D. C. Nepstad et al., Nature 398, 505 (1999).
4. A. Timmermann et al., ibid., p. 694.
5. J. G. Goldammer, Ed., Fire in the Tropical Biota. Ecosystem Processes and Global Challenges (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990); the Freiburg Declaration on Tropical Fires, as released by the conference participants in May 1989, is included in Appendix I (pp. 487-489). See also P. J. Crutzen and J. G. Goldammer, Eds., Fire in the Environment: The Ecological, Atmospheric, and Climatic Importance of Vegetation Fires (Dahlem Workshop Reports, Environmental Sciences Research Report 13, Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1993).
6. J. G. Goldammer, Ed., Fire in the Tropical Biota. Ecosystem Processes and Global Challenges (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990); the Freiburg Declaration on Tropical Fires, as released by the conference participants in May 1989, is included in Appendix I (pp. 487-489). See also P. J. Crutzen and J. G. Goldammer, Eds., Fire in the Environment: The Ecological, Atmospheric, and Climatic Importance of Vegetation Fires (Dahlem Workshop Reports, Environmental Sciences Research Report 13, Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1993).
7. Protecting the Earth. A Status Report with Recommendations for a New Energy Policy, vols. I and II (German Bundestag, Bonn, 1991).
8. See the newsletter IGACtivities (no. 15, December 1998) for a summary of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Biomass Burning Experiment (BIBEX). The BIBEX home page is maintained at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (http://hermes.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/∼bibex).
9. For the results of the Southern Tropical Atlantic Regional Experiment (STARE: TRACE-A and SAFARI), see J. Geophys. Res. 101, 23519 (1996); B. van Wilgen, M. O. Andreae, J. G. Goldammer, J. Lindesay, Eds., Fire in Southern African Savannas, Ecological and Atmospheric Perspectives (Univ. of Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg, 1997).
10. For the results of the Southern Tropical Atlantic Regional Experiment (STARE: TRACE-A and SAFARI), see J. Geophys. Res. 101, 23519 (1996); B. van Wilgen, M. O. Andreae, J. G. Goldammer, J. Lindesay, Eds., Fire in Southern African Savannas, Ecological and Atmospheric Perspectives (Univ. of Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg, 1997).
11. The GFMC (www.uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe) is supported by the German Foreign Office and cosponsored by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)/Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Team of Specialists on Forest Fire, International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), UNESCO, and the World Bank.
12. J. G. Goldammer, B. Seibert, W. Schindele, in Dipterocarp Forest Ecosystems: Towards Sustainable Management, A. Schulte and D. Schöne, Eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996), pp. 155-185.