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The challenge of maintaining working forests at the wildland-urban interface
| Author: |
Gordon, J.C.; Sampson, R.N.; Berry, J.K. |
| Date: |
2005 |
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In: Vince, S.W.; Duryea, M.L.; Macie, E.A.; Hermansen, L.A., eds. Forests at the wildland-urban interface: conservation and management. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC. 8 p. Chapter 2. |
| Abstract: |
Introduction: If you do an Internet search on 'wildland-urban interface' you get more than 2900 web page matches. Almost all of these, including the first 20, have to do with fire risk suppression where wildlands and cities come together. This seems to illustrate what Amatai Ezione called the American genius for the practical. The most pressing problem of wildland-urban interface, as seen by practical people, is the risk posed by wildland fires to urban structures. We would like to argue for a broader construction of the problem, both in terms of values at risk and potential solutions. For both scientific and political reasons, there is cause to think that all forests share a version of the risks that characterize the wildland-urban interface, in that all forests are threatened by change wrought by humans, either through direct activity or remote influences such as anthropogenic climate change. |
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