Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

✍ Scribed by Edward Struzik (auth.)

• Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, the author visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. The author weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (Edward Struzik)....Pages 1-15
The Beast Awakens (Edward Struzik)....Pages 17-55
Inside the Mind of a Wildfire (Edward Struzik)....Pages 57-79
A History of Fire Suppression (Edward Struzik)....Pages 81-102
Visions of the Pyrocene (Edward Struzik)....Pages 103-125
Water on Fire (Edward Struzik)....Pages 127-140
The Big Smoke (Edward Struzik)....Pages 141-162
Drought, Disease, Insects, and Wildfire (Edward Struzik)....Pages 163-179
Fire on Ice (Edward Struzik)....Pages 181-203
Agent of Change (Edward Struzik)....Pages 205-214
Resilience and Recovery (Edward Struzik)....Pages 215-230
Conclusion (Edward Struzik)....Pages 231-244
Back Matter ....Pages 245-257

✦ Subjects

Environment (general)