Firestorm How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future /

• Main Author: Struzik, Edward (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2017.
• Subjects: Environment.; Natural disasters.; Ecosystems.; Landscape ecology.; Environment, general.; Natural Hazards.; Landscape Ecology.

For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagi...