TY - JOUR
T1 - Burning border
AU - Pyne, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
This essay derives from a book, Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada, which has enjoyed support from the Canadian Forest Service and the Canadian Studies Program of the Canadian Embassy, both of which have contributed travel funds, and the National Humanities Center, which generously bestowed a MacArthur Ecological Humanities Fellowship.
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - The United States and Canada approach wildland fire differently. Fire matters to both countries for reasons of economics, public safety, duty-of-care to nature preserves, and bureaucratic identity and inertia. A useful survey of their differences could focus on three simple indices: how each assesses fire threats, how each assigns responsibility for fire management, and how each relates fire protection to land use. In all three instances, each country has evolved apparently similar but in reality parallel strategies that, like their shared border, meet but don't merge. These differences reflect larger national traits.
AB - The United States and Canada approach wildland fire differently. Fire matters to both countries for reasons of economics, public safety, duty-of-care to nature preserves, and bureaucratic identity and inertia. A useful survey of their differences could focus on three simple indices: how each assesses fire threats, how each assigns responsibility for fire management, and how each relates fire protection to land use. In all three instances, each country has evolved apparently similar but in reality parallel strategies that, like their shared border, meet but don't merge. These differences reflect larger national traits.
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U2 - 10.1093/envhis/12.4.959
DO - 10.1093/envhis/12.4.959
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:37249081166
SN - 1084-5453
VL - 12
SP - 959
EP - 965
JO - Environmental History
JF - Environmental History
IS - 4
ER -