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03499aam a2200289Mi 4500 001 5968E31E527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211201010015 008 211116s2021 xxu 000 0 und|d 020 $a 3030698149 020 $a 9783030698140 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $d SILO 245 00 $a Fire science : $b from chemistry to landscape management / $c Francisco Castro Rego, Penelope Morgan, Paulo Fernandes, Chad Hoffman. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Springer, $c 2021. 300 $a xxxviii, 644 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm. 500 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a This textbook provides readers with a conceptual understanding of fire behaviour and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management. Uses case studies, interactive spreadsheets programmed with equations and graphics, and clear explanations to teach fundamental concepts and applications, synthesising cutting-edge science, and applying lessons learned from fire practitioners. The authors discuss fire as part of environmental and human health; their process-based, comprehensive, and quantitative approach encompasses combustion and heat transfer, and fire effects on people, plants, soils, and animals in forest, grassland, and woodland ecosystems from around the Earth. Case studies and examples link fundamental concepts to local, landscape, and global fire implications, including social-ecological systems. Globally, fire science and integrated fire management have made major strides in the last few decades. Society faces numerous fire-related challenges, including the increasing occurrence of large fires that threaten people and property, smoke that poses a health hazard, and lengthening fire seasons worldwide. Fires are useful to suppress fires, conserve wildlife and habitat, enhance livestock grazing, manage fuels, and in ecological restoration. Understanding fire science is critical to forecasting the implication of global change for fires and their effects. Increasing the positive effects of fire (fuels reduction, enhanced habitat for many plants and animals, ecosystem services increased) while reducing the negative impacts of fires (loss of human lives, smoke and carbon emissions that threaten health, etc.) is part of making fires good servants rather than bad masters. Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION -- PART II: COMBUSTION AND HEAT TRANSFER PROCESSES --1. Ignition: chemical conditions -- 2. Chemical processes: from fuel to smoke -- 3. Heat production -- 4. Heat for pre-ignition and flames -- 5. Heat transfer -- PART III: VEGETATION FUELS, FIRE BEHAVIOUR AND EFFECTS -- 6. Fuels and fire behavior description -- 7. Fire propagation -- 8. Extreme fire behavior -- 9. Fire effects on plants, soils and animals -- 10. Fire and people -- PART IV: MANAGING FUELS, FIRES AND LANDSCAPES -- 11. Fuel dynamics and management -- 12. Fire regimes, landscape dynamics and landscape management -- 13. Integrated fire management -- 14. Futuring: trends in fire science and management. 653 $a Bush fire behaviour. 653 $a Fire ecology. 700 1 $a Rego, Francisco Castro $q (author) 700 1 $a Morgan, Penny, $d 1946-, (author). 700 1 $a Fernandes, Paulo $q (author) 700 1 $a Hoffman, Chad $q (author) 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010604.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5968E31E527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search