America's Fires
A Historical Context for Policy and Practice
Published on 1. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-89030-073-2 (ISBN)
Description
"America's Fires reviews the historical context of our fire issues and policies that can inform the current and future debate. The forecast makes it imperative that the nation review its policies toward wildland fires and find ways to live with them more intelligently"--Provided by publisher.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
8 Maps - 23 Figures - 22 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89030-073-2 (9780890300732)
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Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Human Dimensions Faculty, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, a past president of the American Society for Environmental History, and the recipient of numerous fellowships and honors, including the Robert Kirsch Award for body-of-work contribution to American letters.
He has written a score of books, of which a dozen deal with fire on Earth. Among them are fire histories of the United States (Fire in America), Australia (Burning Bush), Canada Awful Splendor), Europe including Russia (Vestal Fire), and Earth overall (World Fire Fire: A Brief History). Others include two editions of Introduction to Wildland Fire and two current-affairs studies, one for the U.S. (Tending Fire) and one for Australia (The Still-Burning Bush)
His interest in fire grew out of 8 seasons with the National Park Service, of which 5 were spent with the North Rim Longshots, the subject of his book, Fire on the Rim. He is presently contributing his part to the exurban fire problem with a cabin bordering the Apache National Forest. He confesses to having started and stopped a fire on every continent.
He has written a score of books, of which a dozen deal with fire on Earth. Among them are fire histories of the United States (Fire in America), Australia (Burning Bush), Canada Awful Splendor), Europe including Russia (Vestal Fire), and Earth overall (World Fire Fire: A Brief History). Others include two editions of Introduction to Wildland Fire and two current-affairs studies, one for the U.S. (Tending Fire) and one for Australia (The Still-Burning Bush)
His interest in fire grew out of 8 seasons with the National Park Service, of which 5 were spent with the North Rim Longshots, the subject of his book, Fire on the Rim. He is presently contributing his part to the exurban fire problem with a cabin bordering the Apache National Forest. He confesses to having started and stopped a fire on every continent.