- Title:
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Living with Fire: Sustaining Ecosystems and Livelihoods through Integrated Fire Management
- Date:
- April 2006
- Organisations
- The Nature Conservancy
- Authors:
- Ronald L. Myers
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Location:
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USA,
United States of America
Overview
Living with Fire: Sustaining Ecosystems & Livelihoods through Integrated Fire Management sets forth a framework for Integrated Fire Management which leads to ecologically and socially appropriate approaches to managing fires and addressing fire-related threats on conservation lands. The report covers:
- The Role of Fire in Ecosystems
- The Source of Fire Threats to Biodiversity
- Altered Fire Regimes: A Conservation, Biodiversity & Social Threat
- Integrated/Collaborative Ecological & Social Approaches to Reducing The Threat of Altered Fire Regimes
- Components of an Integrated Approach to Fire Management
- Guiding Approaches to Integrated Fire Management
The notion that fire can be a useful tool became known to early humans when they first took advantage of fire’s effects on the African savannas several million years ago to manipulate vegetation and wildlife. The threat that fire posed to their security and livelihoods was likely obvious to these early people too. As humankind spread throughout the world, they created new fire regimes that continued to shape and modify landscapes. There also continued to be fires that destroyed homes, crops, livestock and other resources. There has always been these “two faces of fire”—beneficial fire and detrimental fire.
