Introduction to Fire Safety Management
Author: Andrew Furness
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0750680687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll you need to know to successfully manage fire safety in accordance with the Fire Safety Order.
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Managing Fire in the Urban Wildland Interface
Author: Kenneth S. Blonski
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780923956967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique guide to solutions and strategies for managing fire at the urban edge. Offers analytical tools and comprehensive summaries not found in other manuals dealing with fire mitigation. Designed as a reference, it provides information on codes and laws, and includes case studies, tables, figures, suggested websites, and other source material. Draws on best practices from California, with lessons applicable nationwide. Equally useful to state, federal, and local agency staff and officials, fire agency staff, attorneys, architects, landscape architects, property owners, developers, insurance company managers, and business and community leaders.
Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems
Author: Cathryn H. Greenberg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 3030732673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions and forest types, as well as detailed information for individual ecoregions, for fire frequencies and severities, fire effects on tree mortality and regeneration, and levels of fire-dependency by plant and animal communities. The foreword addresses emerging ecological and fire management challenges for forests, in relation to sustainable development goals as highlighted in recent government reports. An introductory chapter highlights patterns of variation in frequencies, severities, scales, and spatial patterns of fire across ecoregions and among forested ecosystems across the US in relation to climate, fuels, topography and soils, ignition sources (lightning or anthropogenic), and vegetation. Separate chapters by respected experts delve into the fire ecology of major forest types within US ecoregions, with a focus on the level of plant and animal fire-dependency, and the role of fire in maintaining forest composition and structure. The regional chapters also include discussion of historic natural (lightning-ignited) and anthropogenic (Native American; settlers) fire regimes, current fire regimes as influenced by recent decades of fire suppression and land use history, and fire management in relation to ecosystem integrity and restoration, wildfire threat, and climate change. The summary chapter combines the major points of each chapter, in a synthesis of US-wide fire ecology and forest management into the future. This book provides current, organized, readily accessible information for the conservation community, land managers, scientists, students and educators, and others interested in how fire behavior and effects on structure and composition differ among ecoregions and forest types, and what that means for forest management today and in the future.
Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests
Author: Francisco Moreira
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-11-02
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9400722079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the post-fire management of burned areas raises strong concerns (economic and social impacts, soil erosion and water quality, biodiversity loss, forest restoration). Although there are a few publications which address post-fire management, the focus of these has been either on general approaches to restoration or specific topics such as preventing post-fire soil erosion. This book is about the post-fire management of fire-prone forest types in southern Europe. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the topic, ranging from stand-level to landscape-level management, and from emergency actions to long-term restoration approaches.
Management in the Fire Service
Author: Harry R. Carter
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2006-05-23
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9780763744014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSharpen Your Leadership Skills And Improve Departmental Performance! This Revised Edition Of Management In The Fire Service Is The Best Source For Proven Strategies On Handling The Managerial Challenges Unique To Your Field. You'll Find The Latest On Vital Topics Such As Pre-Fire Planning, Incident Command, Public Fire And Life Safety Education, Management Of Financial Resources, And Training. New Chapters On Fire Prevention, Code Enforcement, And Labor Relations In The Fire Service Are Also Included. Boost Your Effectiveness In Motivating, Supervising, And Evaluating Personnel, And Apply Management Theory Principles To Actual Service Situations. From Chief And Company Officers To Fiscal, Personnel, And Administrative Managers, If You're In A Management Position, This Book Will Boost Your Performance!
Forest Fires
Author: Edward A. Johnson
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2001-03-01
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0080506747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.
Fire Management in the American West
Author: Mark Hudson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1607320894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service and the major timber industry associations, newspaper articles, articles from industry outlets, and policy documents from the late 1800s through the present, Hudson shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy. More recently, the USFS has attempted to move beyond the policy of complete fire suppression. Interviews with public land managers in the Pacific Northwest shed light on the sources of the agency's struggles as it attempts to change the way we understand and relate to fire in the West. Fire Management in the American West will be of great interest to environmentalists, sociologists, fire managers, scientists, and academics and students in environmental history and forestry.
Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters
Author: Fantina Tedim
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2019-11-22
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0128157224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Management Strategies highlights the urgent need for new methods to prepare and mitigate the effects of these events. Using a multidisciplinary, socio-ecological approach, the book discusses the roots of the problem, presenting a new, innovative approach to wildfire mitigation based on the operational concept of Fire Smart Territory (FST). Under the guidance of its expert editors, the book highlights new ways to prevent and respond to extreme wildfire events and disasters through sustainable development, thus revealing better management methods and increasing protection of both the natural environment and the vulnerable communities within it. - Reveals the complexity of extreme wildfire events and disasters in an accessible, comprehensive and multidisciplinary way - Reviews the ground-breaking concept of Fire Smart Territory (FST) which offers an opportunity to reduce wildfire occurrence and severity through measures that promote sustainable development - Proposes a new perspective on disaster risk reduction to help researchers, planners and professionals successfully adapt their methods for mitigating current and future issues
Federal Wildland Fire Management
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1997-08
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0788146793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManaging wildland fire in the U.S. is a challenge increasing in complexity & magnitude. The goals & actions presented in this report encourage a proactive approach to wildland fire to reduce its threat. Five major topic areas on the subject are addressed: the role of wildland fire in resource management; the use of wildland fire; preparedness & suppression; wildland/urban interface protection; & coordinated program management. Also presented are the guiding principle that are fundamental to wildland fire management & recommendations for fire management policies. Photos, graphs, & references.
Plant-Fire Interactions
Author: Víctor Resco de Dios
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 3030411923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires. It bridges the gap between plant ecologists, interested in the functional and evolutionary consequences of fire in ecosystems, with foresters and fire managers, interested in effectively reducing fire hazard and damage. This innovation in this study lies in its focus on the physiological responses of plants that are of relevance for predicting forest fire risk, behaviour and management. It covers the evolutionary trade-offs in the resistance of plants to fire and drought, and its implications for predicting fuel moisture and fire risk; the importance of floristics and plant traits, in interaction with landform and atmospheric conditions, to successfully predict fire behaviour, and provides recommendations for pre- and post- fire management, in relation with the functional composition of the community. The book will be particularly focused on examples from Mediterranean environments, but the underlying principles will be of broader utility.
