International
Forest Fire
News

No. 19 - September 1998

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• Editorial

Guest Editorial

• The Political Ecology of Fire

South East Asia Fire Special

• Transboundary Haze Pollution in South East Asia
• Singapore Environment Council Presents NGOs Concerns about Southeast Asian Fires to ASEAN Senior Officials
• Singapore Environment Council International Policy Dialogue on the Southeast Asian Fires Statement to the ASEAN Senior Officials for the Environment
• Singapore Environment Council International Policy Dialogue on the Southeast Asian Fires
• ASEAN: Regional Technical Assistance
• Remote Sensing of Fires I: National University of Singapore
• Remote Sensing of Fires II: The GTZ-Indonesian Integrated Forest Fire Management Project
• Rehabilitation of Fire-affected Forests in East Kalimantan
• WMO Workshop on Regional Transboundary Smoke and Haze in Southeast Asia
• Germany-Singapore Environmental Technology Agency (GSETA): Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution, 27-28 May 1998, Singapore

Americas Fire Special

• History of Forest Fires in Mexico
• Fire Activities in the Guyana Shield, the Orinoco and Amazon Basin during March 1998
• Overview of the Southern United States Fire Situation January - July 1998
• Influences on Prescribed Burning Activity in the US National Forest System
• 21st Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference
• Fire Support in the Philippines: BLM provides Experts to Help with threatening Wildfires
• BLM International Exchanges, Summer 1998

Country Notes

Bulgaria:	Forest Fires in Bulgaria 1997
People's Republic of China:	The Study and Planning of Firebreaks in China
Latvia:	Forest and Forest Fire Prevention System in Latvia
Mongolia:	Fire in Forest Ecosystems of Mongolia The German - Mongolian Technical Cooperation GTZ Integrated Fire Management Project
Namibia:	30 % Reduction in Fire Incidents in three Years
South Africa:	A Structured versus a Laissez Faire Approach to Controlled Burning in the Kruger National Park in South Africa 1998 Southern African Fire Season - An Early Start
Spain:	CIHEAM: International Course on Protection against Forest Fires, 4-15 May 1998, Zaragoza

News from Fire Research

• The Global Fire Product
• IGBP/IGAC: BIBEX Steering Committee Meeting

News from ECE/FAO

• Report of the UN-FAO/ECE/ILO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire
• Recommendations of the First Baltic Conference on Forest Fires, Poland, 4-8 May 1998

Recent Publications

• Transboundary Pollution in South East Asia
• Dendroecological Studies in Forest and Fire History
• Forest Fire and Environmental Management
• Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus

Meetings Planned for 1998-99

Portugal:	Third International Conference on Forest Fire Research,  16-20 November 1998, Coimbra, in conjunction with the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Conference and the Working Meeting of the EARSeL Special Interest Group (SIG) on Forest Fires
U.S.A.:	Information Technology in Fire Management,  16-19 November 1998, San Diego Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: Bottom lines, 5-9 April 1999, San Diego
Israel:	MEDPINE International Workshop, January / February 1999, Beit-Oren
Poland:	IUFRO Conference on Remote Sensing and Forest Monitoring, 1-3 June, Rogów

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