Pre-Industrial Anthropogenic Fire Regimes in Transition: The Case of Spain and its Implications for Fire Governance in Mediterranean Type Biomes

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-69

  Seijo, Francisco ^a,b   Gray, Robert ^c  

^a Department of Political Science   (Spain)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RW Gray Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Fire governance; Landscape fires; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862177767     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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