Global Application of Prescribed Fire

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Edited by: John R Weir, J Derek Scasta

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

Global Application of Prescribed Fire provides a first-hand perspective of the various methods and ways people around the world view and use prescribed fire. It covers the logistics, constraints and social dynamics surrounding the intentional use and application of fire by humans, and demonstrates how, why, when and where prescribed fire is used in different regions. + Full description

Written by international experts, the book has four key objectives: explore new techniques, ideas and thoughts on how to apply prescribed fire from a global perspective; provide regional case studies covering issues that may constrain or enhance prescribed fire projects; stimulate cross-cultural conversations about how fires function in ecosystems; and relate prescribed fire to wildfire regimes with implications for protecting life and property, as well as sustaining local fire cultures and unique fire-dependent flora and fauna.

Global Application of Prescribed Fire enhances our understanding and knowledge about the application of prescribed fire. This comprehensive book will provide fire practitioners, researchers, agencies and policymakers with key ecological and managerial insight of how prescribed fires are conducted around the globe.

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Hardback | February 2022 | $220.00
ISBN: 9781486312481 | 304 pages | 270 x 210 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Features

Provides a broad and diverse source of global information on prescribed fire.
Explores new techniques, ideas and practical, local knowledge on how to apply prescribed fire.
Includes extensive examples of prescribed fire from many regions of the world.
Aims to stimulate cross-cultural conversations about how fire should/could/would function in ecosystems with a broad gradient of fire regimes, dependencies and objectives.

Dedication
List of contributors
Acronyms

1: Introduction to global application of prescribed fire
2: Fire in the boreal forest, north-east British Columbia Canada: putting fire out on the land
3: Burning in the Pampa and Cerrado in Brazil
4: Sanctioned burning in sub-Saharan Africa
5: Forged by fire: burning the Australian tropical savannas
6: The (re)emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia
7: Fire in pines of the Southeast US
8: The West wasn’t burning …
9: Pyric legacy: prescribed burning in the Flint Hills region of North America
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
12: Fire management in heather-dominated heaths and moorlands of north-west Europe
13: Prescribed burning in the European Mediterranean Basin
14: Possibility of introducing prescribed burning in Mongolian rangelands
15: Prescribed fires of the future: technology and fire
16: Epilogue

Glossary
Index

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Authors

John R. Weir is an Associate Extension Specialist in the Natural Resource Ecology and Management Department at Oklahoma State University. He teaches two prescribed fire courses, conducts fire ecology research and has extension responsibilities relating to prescribed fire training and working with landowners. In the past 30 years he has conducted over 1300 prescribed burns and has assisted with forming over 40 prescribed burn associations in nine US states. He is the author of the book Conducted Prescribed Fires: A Comprehensive Manual and in 2015 he received the Henry Wright Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Fire Ecology.

J. Derek Scasta is an Associate Professor and Extension Rangeland Management Specialist in the Ecosystem Science and Management Department at the University of Wyoming. He teaches an applied fire ecology course, conducts research on prescribed fire and wildfire, and helped to form the Wyoming Prescribed Fire Council. Since 2008, he has participated in more than 50 prescribed burns in six US states. He is a Certified Wildland Fire Ecologist through the Association for Fire Ecology and a Certified Professional in Rangeland Management through the Society for Range Management.

Contributors:
Davide Ascoli, Carolyn Baldwin, Vanessa I. Cavanagh, Lars Coleman, Matthew K. Corby, Douglas Cram, Jeff Davidson, G. Matt Davies, Victoria Donovan, David M. Engle, Paulo M. Fernandes, Alessandra Fidelis, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Fernando F. Furquim, Marten Geertsema, Navashni Govender, Mercedes Guijarro, Nuno G. Guiomar, Robert G. Hamilton, Carmen Hernando, Kevin Peter Kirkman, Asuka Koyama, Sonja E.R. Leverkus, Javier Madrigal, Rob Marrs, Devan Allen McGranahan, Steven R. ‘Torch’ Miller, Brett P. Murphy, Toshiya Okuro, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Angela M. Reid, Eric Rigolot, Carlos G. Rossa, John Derek Scasta, Isabel B. Schmidt, Rheinhardt Scholtz, Russell Stevens, Morgan Treadwell, Dirac Twidwell, Jamsran Undarmaa, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv Guri Velle, John R. Weir, Yu Yoshihara.