Climate change and early warning systems for wildland fire

Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change

Volumn 9789401785983, Issue , 2013, Pages 127-151

  De Groot, William J ^a   Flannigan, Michael D ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Changing fire regimes; Fire danger rating; Fire weather; Forecasting; Presuppression preparedness; Wildfire disaster

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHANGING FIRE REGIME; EARLY WARNING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FIRE DANGER RATING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE WEATHER; PRESUPPRESSION PREPAREDNESS; WILDFIRE DISASTER; WILDLAND FIRE;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84931350600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8598-3_7     Document Type: Chapter

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