Smokescreen : Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate /

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"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hanson, Chad T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Forest management.
Forest fires > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Prevention.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • The fiery myths that undermine climate solutions
  • The snag forest
  • You can't fight the wind with a chain saw
  • The "megafire" narrative
  • What's the real "carbon bomb"?
  • The economics of deceit
  • What you aren't being told about "thinning"
  • An inconvenient woodpecker
  • Climate change enablers
  • The logging collaboratives
  • Fire in the east
  • Fire-safe communities
  • Keep It in the forest, keep It in the ground
  • A new wildfire vocabulary
  • Moving beyond the politics of fear
  • Acknowledgments.

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