Living on a flammable planet: Interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1696, 2016, Pages

  Roos, Christopher I ^a   Scott, Andrew C ^b   Belcher, Claire M ^c   Chaloner, William G ^b   Aylen, Jonathan ^d   Bird, Rebecca Bliege ^f   Coughlan, Michael R ^g   Johnson, Bart R ^h   Johnston, Fay H ⁱ   McMorrow, Julia ^e   Steelman, Toddi ^j   Archibald, Sally ^k   Balch, Jennifer ^k   Beerling, David ^k   Bond, William ^k   Bowman, David ^k   Carroll, Matthew ^k   Doerr, Stefan ^k   Gazzard, Rob ^k   Hadden, Rory ^k   Hudspith, Victoria ^k   Kettridge, Nick ^k   Millington, James ^k   Page, Susan ^k   Power, Mitchell ^k   Pyne, Stephen ^k   Restuccia, Francesco ^k   Santín, Cristina ^k   Swetnam, Tom ^k   Walding, Nicholas ^k   Wooster, Martin ^k   more..

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^j University of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

^k NONE

more..

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire management; Fire adaptive communities; Smoke and health; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; POLITICAL BOUNDARY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; WILDFIRE;

ATTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; HUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH;

ATTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FIRES; HUMANS; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 84969670588     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0469     Document Type: Article

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