Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters

Root Causes and New Management Strategies

Tedim, Leone, McGee
Elsevier S&T
330 pages
ISBN-13: 9780128157213
December 2019

Extreme 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).