Dear ECOLOG-L:
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-first Century
Sara E. Jensen is Private Lands Conservation Associate with Defenders
of Wildlife. Guy R. McPherson, Professor of Natural Resources and
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, is
author of Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management among other
books.
http://go.ucpress.edu/Jensen
Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North
American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining
healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in
unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely
uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science,
and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this
pressing dilemma. Written in clear language, it will help scientists,
policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of
fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to
coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go.
Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new
light on current controversies, _Living with Fire _offers a dynamic
new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical
environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the
important ecological and political processes that are necessary for
finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy
dilemmas.
Full information about the bookis available online:
http://go.ucpress.edu/Jensen
