Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective

Nolan et al (2020) give their perspective of the current fire season in Eastern Australia, yet draw attention solely to fuel moisture as a "key constraint on the occurrence of large wildfires in this region". Here we provide a broader view. Mega-fires were the subject of an international conference held in Tallahassee, Florida in 2011, spawned by increasing awareness that fire suppression was "running out of road". Jerry Williams, the former National Director of Fire & Aviation Management, United States Forest Service, was the keynote speaker and wrote: "protecting people and sustaining natural resources can no longer rely on suppression capabilities, alone; protection will become more dependent on how we manage the forests where high-impact mega-fires incubate" (Williams 2013).

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2020-04-16

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/gcb.15125PMID 32298519
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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