Ensuring That We Can See the Wood and the Trees: Growing the Capacity for Ecological wildfire Risk Management

Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 247-262

  Paton, Douglas ^a   Buergelt, Petra T ^b,c,d   Flannigan, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Risk management; Social ecological framework; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRES; FORESTRY;

CAPACITY BUILDING; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK; SYSTEMATIC MANAGEMENT; WILDFIRE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84940001135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-410434-1.00013-0     Document Type: Chapter

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