Prescribed Burning in Australasia (eBook)

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Prescribed burning is an essential part of bushfire mitigation across the Australian landscape to reduce risk to communities and ecosystems and is the most effective approach to treating bushfire risk and maintaining ecosystem health across large areas of landscape. Australia is a global leader in the theory and practice of prescribed burning. This ebook includes contributions from more than 50 authors, which reflects the diversity, complexity and scope of bushfire knowledge.

The ebook also draws on the most current scientific and practitioner knowledge and experience across three themes:

‘Different Things to Different People’

This section sets out the social context of burning in Australia; policy setting, social and cultural concepts of place and the role and limitations of academic research.

'Evidence Led Objectives’

This section looks at significance of effects of prescribed burning with in-depth reviews around fuel hazard reduction and its effectiveness, forest carbon, water supply, biodiversity and escapes.

‘Expert Opinions’

There are many competing views amongst leading experts, practitioners and policy makers about how fire should be used in the landscape. This chapter will enable the reader to get a better understanding of some of these viewpoints

The ebook is designed to increase the understanding of the value of prescribed burning in land management but also presents diverse perspectives on the complexity of the arguments surrounding prescribed burning.