Global Application of Prescribed Fire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weir, John R.

Contributor:

Scasta, J. Derek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prescribed burning.

Wildfires.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

How prescribed fire is used around the world, exploring new techniques and local knowledge.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

DEDICATION

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

ACRONYMS

1 Introduction to global application of prescribed fire

Introduction to prescribed fire

Escaped fires and the media

Policies and regulations

Fire cultures

Organising around prescribed fire

Indigenous use of fire

Need for international information exchange

Experiential learning and knowledge transfer

Need for prescribed fire research to guide application

Fighting fire with fire: call for more prescribed fire during active wildfire years

Political geography of fire

Differential policies

Conclusion

Endnotes

References

2 Fire in the boreal forest, north-east British Columbia, Canada: putting fire out on the land

Fire history

Historical objectives for fire use

Current objectives for fire use

Fuels and distribution of fire

Requirements and barriers to fire application: cultural and social issues

Requirements and barriers to fire application: laws and policies governing the use of fire

Requirements and barriers to fire application: regulatory requirements

Requirements and barriers to fire application: current and past issues

Getting fire on the ground

Future of fire in the region

Acknowledgements

3 Burning in the Pampa and Cerrado in Brazil

Introduction to fire in the region

Characteristics of fire in the Cerrado and southern Brazilian grasslands

Requirements and barriers for fire use

4 Sanctioned burning in sub-Saharan Africa

Fire regimes south of the Sahara

Fire in sub-Saharan Africa

Wildland fire science and management

Wildland fire policy

5 Forged by fire: burning the Australian tropical savannas.

Tropical savannas of northern Australia

Human-induced changes to the fire regime

Burning the bush: getting fire on the ground

The future of fire in Australia's tropical savannas

6 The (re)emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia

Cultural burning differs from mainstream fire management

Examples of the gendered dimensions of fire

Aboriginal burning in the continental north and south

Concluding remarks

About the author

7 Fire in pines of the Southeastern US

Fire behaviour

Colour plates

8 The West wasn't burning …

The West is burning … a little

Original culture of burning

Unmanned aerial systems

Prescribed fire escapes in the West …

Catch-22?

Black Range Ranger District, Gila National Forest

Apples and oranges

9 Pyric legacy: prescribed burning in the Flint Hills region, USA

Introduction

Vegetative characteristics

Livestock grazing and fire

Requirements for and barriers to fire use

Fire and the future

10 An NGO and prescribed fire: The Nature Conservancy's Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (USA)

11 Prescribed burn associations: US landowners getting fire on the ground

Introduction to prescribed burn associations

Why PBAs work

Building PBAs

PBAs for hunters, cattlemen and recreation

Overcoming PBA challenges.

PBAs feeding into fire culture

Unique examples of PBAs

Dedication

12 Fire management in heather-dominated heaths and moorlands of north-west Europe

A (very) brief history of fire in oceanic heath and moorland ecosystems

Conditions and prescriptions for fire use in Calluna-dominated heathlands

Heathland prescribed burning practice in the modern era

Conclusions: a challenging future for managed burning

13 Prescribed burning in the European Mediterranean Basin

A historical introduction

Prescribed burning effort and objectives

Prescribed burning requirements and barriers

Future of prescribed burning in Mediterranean Europe

14 Possibility of introducing prescribed burning in Mongolian rangelands

Seasonal movement as a traditional rangeland management practice

History of institutional arrangements for rangeland management

Knowledge and experience of fire in Mongolian rangelands

Scientific, technical and social issues regarding the introduction of prescribed fire

15 Prescribed fires of the future: technology and fire

Expanding workforce capacity

Reducing uncertainty

Scaling-up prescribed fire

Summary

16 Epilogue

GLOSSARY

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

1302012662