Urban-wildland fires: How California and other regions of the US can learn from Australia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Stephens, Scott L ^a   Adams, Mark A ^b   Handmer, John ^c   Kearns, Faith R ^d   Leicester, Bob ^e   Leonard, Justin ^e   Moritz, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Berkeley   (United States)

^e BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

AUSTRALIA; CALIFORNIA; FIRE SERVICES; FIRE SUPPRESSION; NATURAL HAZARD; SPREAD OF FIRES;

FIRES;

EID: 67349213074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/014010     Document Type: Article

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