Wildfire and Community : Facilitating Preparedness and Resilience.
Wildfires represent a growing threat to environments, to people, communities, and to societies worldwide, particularly in the United States, Southern Europe, and Australia. Recognition of this growing risk has highlighted a need to develop people's capacity to adapt to annually occurring events...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 2012. |
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| Summary: | Wildfires represent a growing threat to environments, to people, communities, and to societies worldwide, particularly in the United States, Southern Europe, and Australia. Recognition of this growing risk has highlighted a need to develop people's capacity to adapt to annually occurring events that could increase in frequency and severity over the coming years and decades. The goal of ensuring sustained levels of protective measures in communities susceptible to wildfire hazard consequences has proved to be elusive. This book examines why this is so and identifies ways in which sustained lev. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (367 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780398088446 0398088446 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |