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Forest and agroecosystem fire management in Ghana
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2010The threat of wildfires to the economic potential of forestry and agriculture is one of the persistent national and international concerns. Improving and applying indigenous wildfire management (IWM) approaches is seen as one of the main hopes for mitigating and adapting to this threat to rural forest communities.
Mark Appiah +3 more
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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
Science, 2013Policy focused on fire suppression only delays the inevitable.
S. L. Stephens +6 more
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Fire Management in Tropical Forests
2015The chapter “Fire Management” of the Tropical Forest Management Handbook provides an introduction to the history and ecology of fires in ecosystems of the tropics (closed evergreen forests; closed and open seasonal forests; fire-climax pine forests in the tropical submontane and montane altitudes, subtropical lowlands; savannas and open woodlands ...
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Use of Forest Ecosystem Classification Systems in Fire Management
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1996Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) systems have been used in the past mainly for forest management decision-making. FEC systems can also serve an important role for decision-making in other disciplines, such as fire management for both wildfire suppression and prescribed burning operations.
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Fire Modelling in Forest Fire management
2005Fire Modelling in Forest Fire ...
Šerić, Ljiljana +2 more
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Post-Fire Management of Exotic Forests
2011Forests dominated by exotic tree species represent around 5% of all European forests, including plantations and self-sown exotic forests. The management of burned exotic forests is characterized taking into account specific aspects related with the protection of soils and the restoration of natural vegetation.
Joaquim S. Silva, Hélia Marchante
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Forest fire prevention: a GIS tool for fire-fighting planning and management. [PDF]
, 2007 ABSTRACT: For the organization of efficient and effective firefighting activities an understanding of the potential ignition risk level and the allocation of the means in a territory is needed. The IBIMET, Institute of the National Research Council and the DISTAF, Department of Environmental Science and Technology in Forestry of the University of ...
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Information Extraction for Forest Fires Management
2008Forest fires are a recurrent environmental and economic emergency worldwide. In Southern Europe the year 2003 is considered one of the worst ever with a total burnt area of 740,000 hectares [22]. Even if in some countries according to the national burnt area statistics the problem seems to be under control and of steady or decreasing magnitude, in ...
Andrea Pelizzari +2 more
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Disastrous Forest Fires: Management and Control
Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2018Forest fires are the most common hazard in forests causing havoc with biodiversity. Forest fires may occur naturally; however, about 80 per cent of forest fires in the world are caused by human beings. Forest Survey of India estimates that about half of the country’s forests are affected by fire.
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Fire Management in the Boreal Forests of Canada
2000The boreal forest dominates the Canadian landscape, as it often dominates the world’s view of Canada as a country of vast unpopulated forests. The boreal forest region (Rowe 1972) sweeps across the country in a giant curve, covering almost 530 million ha of forestlands in portions of the Yukon and Northwest Territories (NWT), British Columbia, the ...
Paul C. Ward, William Mawdsley
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