New Book Announcement from Oregon State University Press
Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for catastrophic fires. With a rapidly growing interest in recreation and residential development in forest settings, an increasing number of citizens and their property face the dangerous consequences of wildfires.
To be effective, wildfire risk management must be informed by science—but that requires more than just knowledge about the physical and biological dynamics of fire and forest ecosystems. Social values, socioeconomic factors, demographic trends, institutional arrangements, and human behavior must also be taken into consideration by the agencies and individuals responsible for wildland fire decision making.
The first book of its kind to integrate the social science literature on the human dimensions of wildfire, People, Fire, and Forests reviews current studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field and synthesizes them into a rich body of knowledge with practical management implications. Sections in the book cover such topics as public perception of wildfire risk, acceptability of fire management policies, and community impacts of wildfire.
Designed to make relevant social science information more available and useful to wildfire risk managers and policy makers, as well as to scholars and students, People, Fire, and Forests explores the theoretical and methodological issues surrounding human interactions with wildfire and describes the practical implications of this research.
People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science
Edited by Terry C. Daniel, Matthew S. Carroll, Cassandra Moseley, & Carol Raish
Publication date: June 2007
240 pages. ISBN 978-0-87071-184-8
Paperback, $24.95
Toll free orders 1-800-426-3797. Distributed in Canada by the UBC Press, 1-877-864-8477.
the editors
Terry C. Daniel is Professor of Psychology and Natural Resources at the University of Arizona.
Matthew S. Carroll is Professor of Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University.
Cassandra Moseley is Director of the Ecosystem Workforce Program at the University of Oregon.
Carol Raish is a Research Social Scientist at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Of related interest:
Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests, by John C. Tappeiner II, Douglas A. Maguire, and Timothy B. Harrington.
Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest, by Margaret Herring and Sarah Greene. Foreword by William G. Robbins.
publicity contact: Tom Booth, 503-796-0547, thomas.booth@oregonstate.edu
