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Planning the wildland-urban interface / Molly Mowery, Anna Read, Kelly Johnston, and Tareq Wafaie.
Fine Arts Library NA9108 .A545 no.594
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mowery, Molly, author.
- Read, Anna, author.
- Johnston, Kelly, author.
- Wafaie, Tareq, author.
- Series:
- Report (American Planning Association. Planning Advisory Service) ; no. 594.
- PAS report ; 594
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wildland-urban interface.
- Fire risk assessment.
- Wildfires--Prevention and control.
- Wildfires.
- Rural-urban relations.
- Urbanization--Environmental aspects.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : American Planning Association, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Wildfires pose a growing threat to communities across the country as development in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) accelerates. This PAS Report offers a holistic planning framework helping planners guide land-use decisions to create communities that are safer and more resilient to wildfire." -- from American Planning Association website.
- Contents:
- Why planning the WUI matters.
- Understanding the WUI.
- Breaking the WUI fire disaster sequence.
- Identifying and assessing wildfire hazard and risk.
- A holistic WUI planning framework.
- WUI planning tools.
- WUI regulations.
- What does the future hold?
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143).
- ISBN:
- 9781611902020
- 1611902029
- OCLC:
- 1097251684
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