Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Management Strategies

Extreme wildfires events and disasters, exacerbated by climate change, societal, economic, and political processes, are occurring with increasing frequency across the globe. Current management strategies cannot control these fires which exceed the capacity of suppression systems, leaving threatened communities extremely vulnerable. Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters 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, Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters highlights new ways to prevent and respond to extreme wildfire events and disasters through sustainable development, 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 wayReviews the ground-breaking concept of Fire Smart Territory (FST) which offers an opportunity to reduce wildfire occurrence and severity through measures that promote sustainable developmentProposes a new perspective on disaster risk reduction to help researchers, planners and professionals successfully adapt their methods for mitigating current and future issues INDICE: Part 1: Extreme wildfire events and disasters: examples and global trends 1. Extreme wildfire events and disaster as a social ecological construction 2. Extreme wildfires and disasters around the world: lessons to be learned Part 2: Extreme wildfire events and disasters: The roots of the problem 3. The relation of weather conditions and climate change effects with extreme wildfires 4. The relation of landscape characteristics, human settlements, spatial planning, and fuel management with extreme wildfires 5. Social dimensions: causes and biases 6. Historical Ecology of extreme wildfire as disaster 7. Firefighting approaches and extreme wildfires Part 3. Towards a new approach to cope with extreme wildfire events and disasters 8. The suppression model fragilities: the firefighting trap? 9. Mitigation and preparedness as measures to cope with extreme wildfires and disasters 10. Recovery Part 4. How to cope with the problem of extreme wildfires and disasters 11. Wildfire policies contribution to aggravate extreme wildfires and disaster occurrence 12. Fire Smart Territory as an innovative approach to wildfire risk reduction 13. How to create a change in the wildfire management policies  14. What can we do differently about the wildfire problem: an overview

• ISBN: 978-0-12-815721-3
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 330
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés