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Wildland Fires and Air Pollution, Volume 8
Description
The
interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health
challenge. Fuels treatments proposed for National Forests are
intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency and
severity, as well as to protect property located in the wild
land-urban interface. However, prescribed fires produce gases and
aerosols that have instantaneous and long-term effects on air
quality. If fuels treatment are not conducted, however, then wild
land fires become more severe and frequent causing worse public
health and wellfare effects. A better understanding of air pollution
and smoke interactions is needed in order to protect the public
health and allow for socially and ecologically acceptable use of fire
as a management tool. This text offers such an understanding and
examines innovative wide-scale monitoring efforts (field and remotely
sensed), and development of models predicting spatial and temporal
distribution of air pollution and smoke resulting from forests fires
and other sources. * collaborative effort of an international team of
scientists * high quality of invited chapters * full colour
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