Wildland Fire in Ecosystems

Wildland Fire in Ecosystems
Author: David V. Sandberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2003
Genre: Air quality
ISBN:

This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on air quality can assist land, fire, and air resource managers with fire and smoke planning, and their efforts to explain to others the science behind fire-related program policies and practices to improve air quality. Chapter topics include air quality regulations and fire; characterization of emissions from fire; the transport, dispersion, and modeling of fire emissions; atmospheric and plume chemistry; air quality impacts of fire; social consequences of air quality impacts; and recommendations for future research.

Adaptive Governance

Adaptive Governance
Author: Ronald D. Brunner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0231136250

Drawing case studies, the authors of this work examine how adaptive governance breaks the gridlock in natural-resource policy. Unlike scientific management, which relies on science as the foundation for policies made through a central authority, adaptive governance integrates other types of knowledge into the decision-making process. The authors emphasize the need for open decision making, recognition of multiple interests in questions of natural-resource policy, and an integrative, interpretive science to replace traditional reductive, experimental science.