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Manage fire regimes, not fires
Citation
Cochrane, MA and Bowman, DMJS, Manage fire regimes, not fires, Nature Geoscience, 14, (7) pp. 455-457. ISSN 1752-0894 (2021) [Contribution to Refereed Journal]
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DOI: doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00791-4
Abstract
Globally, land- and fire-management policies have counterproductively caused cascading ecosystem changes that exacerbate, rather than mitigate, wildfires. Given rapidly changing climate and land-use conditions that amplify wildfire risk, a policy shift to adaptive management of fire regimes is urgently needed.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Contribution to Refereed Journal |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences |
| Research Group: | Forestry sciences |
| Research Field: | Forestry fire management |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Natural hazards |
| Objective Field: | Climatological hazards (e.g. extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires) |
| UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
| ID Code: | 145413 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 18 |
| Deposited By: | Plant Science |
| Deposited On: | 2021-07-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-07-20 |
| Downloads: | 1 View Download Statistics |
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