| Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Moreira, Francisco (Editor), Arianoutsou, Margarita (Editor), Corona, Piermaria (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9401783888 ISBN-13: 9789401783880 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Forestry - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology |
| Dewey: 634.956 |
| Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.05 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the post-fire management of burned areas raises strong concerns (economic and social impacts, soil erosion and water quality, biodiversity loss, forest restoration). Although there are a few publications which address post-fire management, the focus of these has been either on general approaches to restoration or specific topics such as preventing post-fire soil erosion. This book is about the post-fire management of fire-prone forest types in southern Europe. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the topic, ranging from stand-level to landscape-level management, and from emergency actions to long-term restoration approaches. |