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The science of firescapes: achieving fire-resilient communities
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Smith, AMS and Kolden, CA and Paveglio, TB and Cochrane, MA and Bowman, DMJS and Moritz, MA and Kliskey, AD and Alessa, L and Hudak, AT and Hoffman, CM and Lutz, JA and Queen, LP and Goetz, SJ and Higuera, PE and Boschetti, L and Flannigan, M and Yedinak, KM and Watts, AC and Strand, EK and Van Wagtendonk, JW and Anderson, JW and Stocks, BJ and Abatzoglou, JT, The science of firescapes: achieving fire-resilient communities, BioScience, 66, (2) pp. 130-146. ISSN 0006-3568 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1093/biosci/biv182
Abstract
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process. Fire science has been, and continues to be, performed in isolated "silos," including institutions (e.g., agencies versus universities), organizational structures (e.g., federal agency mandates versus local and state procedures for responding to fire), and research foci (e.g., physical science, natural science, and social science). These silos tend to promote research, management, and policy that focus only on targeted aspects of the "wicked" wildfire problem. In this article, we provide guiding principles to bridge diverse fire science efforts to advance an integrated agenda of wildfire research that can help overcome disciplinary silos and provide insight on how to build fire-resilient communities.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | fire, adapatation, mitigation, resilience |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Ecological Applications |
| Research Field: | Landscape Ecology |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Natural Hazards |
| Objective Field: | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments |
| UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
| ID Code: | 113712 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 50 |
| Deposited By: | Plant Science |
| Deposited On: | 2017-01-16 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-10-31 |
| Downloads: | 36 View Download Statistics |
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