Making a world of difference in fire and climate change

Fire Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 90-101

  Huffman, Mary R ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Fire policy; Fire climate interactions; Global priorities; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FIRE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84919424662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.1003090     Document Type: Article

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