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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| Published: | Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 2012. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Wildfire and Community : |b Facilitating Preparedness and Resilience. |
| 260 | |a Springfield : |b Charles C Thomas, |c 2012. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a WILDFIRE AND COMMUNITY; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 WILDFIRE PREPAREDESS AND RESILIENCE IN COMMUNITY CONTEXTS; Chapter 2 SOCIALLY DISASTROUS LANDSCAPE FIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; Chapter 3 A LANDSCAPE TYPOLOGY OF RESIDENTIAL WILDFIRE RISK; Chapter 4 ENHANCE WILDFIRE RISK MANAGEMENT IN PORTUGAL; Chapter 5 PROACTIVE HUMAN RESPONSE T O WILDFIRES OUTBREAK; Chapter 6 FOREST FIRES IN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE: ANAYLSIS AND PROPOSED ACTIONS; Chapter 7 WILDFIRE RISK MANAGEMENT IN INDIA AND THE COMMUNITY; Chapter 8 WILDLAND FIRE PREPAREDNESS IN GREECE AND CYPRUS. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 9 "STAY OR GO"-POLICY IN THE LINE OF FIREChapter 10 WHAT DOES BEING "WELL PREPARED" FOR WILDFIRE MEAN?; Chapter 11 COMMUNITIES AT RISK: PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS IN THE PINE BARRENS OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; Chapter 12 THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF FOREST FIRE; Chapter 13 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS; Chapter 14 NURTURING COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS FROM THE GROUND UP; Chapter 15 RESPONDING TO A FIRE THREAT; Chapter 16: SOCIAL MEDIA AND RESILIENCE TO WILDFIRE EVENTS; Chapter 17: WILDFIRE RISK MANAGEMENT:BUILDING ON LESSONS LEARNED; INDEX. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 506 | |a Access limited to authorized users. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Fire management |z Australia. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fire management |z Portugal. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Wildfires |z Australia |x Prevention and control. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Wildfires |z Portugal |x Prevention and control. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Wildfire risk |z Australia. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Wildfire risk |z Portugal. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Tedim, Fantina. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Paton, Douglas. |t Wildfire and Community : Facilitating Preparedness and Resilience. |d Springfield : Charles C Thomas, ©2012 |z 9780398088477 |
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