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Niccolo Caldararo

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• Review Article
  Dominant Paradigm of Fire Control: Solution or Problem?
  Author(s): Niccolo CaldararoNiccolo Caldararo
  
  This paper discusses several issues in forest and Wildland management that have become a paradigm with references from the popular press regarding forest and Wildland fire. A number of ideological conceptions of the world construct perceptions and undermine efforts to reduce or control wild fires. These conceptions presuppose events in a “natural world” that is really a human control and limited space. Many of these conceptions structure how human activities are planned in “natural” or “wild” areas as suburban sprawl continues. These conceptions also structure how fires are perceived to originate and spread defeating fire fighting and planning for fire control. This paper shows how these activities actually promote fire and are creating conditions for more expensive and intense fires. One of the central ideas to today’s seasonal wild fires is .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2168-9776.1000103

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