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Tran Van Nao (Editor) The last decade has witnessed a seriously increasing incidence of forest fires in many countries. Substantial economic and ecological losses have been incurred, although the estimation of total damage This has been due to the lack as
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Also in this series: Prins CFL ed: Production, Marketing and Use of Finger-Jointed Sawnwood. ISBN 90-247-2569{) Oldeman RAA, et al. eds: Tropical Hardwood Utilization: Practice and Prospects. 1982. ISBN 90-247-2581-X Baas P ed: New Perspectives in Wood Anatomy. 1982. ISBN 90-247-2526-7 Bonga JM and Durzan DJ eds : Tissue Culture in Forestry . 1982. ISBN 90-247-2660-3 Satoo T and Madgwick HAl : Forest Biomass. 1982 . ISBN 90-247-2710-3 Den Ouden P and Boom BK eds: Manual of Cultivated Conifers: Hardy in Cold-and Warm-Temperate Zone. 1982. ISBN 90-247-2148-2
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Forest Fire Prevention and Control Proceedings of an International Seminar organized by the Timber Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Held at Warsaw, Poland, at the invitation of the Government of Poland 20 to 22 May 1981
edited by
T. van Nao
1982
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
This volume is listed in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Forest fire prevention and control. (Forestry sciences ; English and French; summaries i n English. 1. Fores:t fires--Prevention and .control--Congresses. I. Van Nao, T. (Tran) II. United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe. Timber Committee. III. Series.
SD420.6.F67
1982
363.3'7
82-12623
ISBN 978-90-481-8283-1 ISBN 978-94-017-1574-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1574-4
ISBN 978-90-481-8283-1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
IX
Report of the seminar
XI
Papers and Proceedings!/ I.
Overview of Forest Fire Problems Information on forest fires Timber Section, FAO/ECE Agriculture and Timber Divi~ion, Geneva
II.
Forest fires in countries of northern, eastern and central Europe J. Bardan (Poland)
21
Forest fires in the Mediterranean region R. Velez (Spain)
37
Forest fires in North America The Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Canadian Forestry Service and the United States Forest Service Fire Risk Evaluation and Development of Forest Fires Les criteres d'evaluation des risques d'incendie de for1Hs F. Delabraze (IUFRO) Modelling the development of fire in a forest environment R.C. Rothermel (USA)
III.
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Detection, Planning, Organization and Techniques of Forest Fire C
