Fire and sustainability: considerations for California's altered future climate : white paper

This paper recommends a variety of actions that should be taken to mitigate the future effects of wildfires in California. These actions include: adoption of a risk-based framework for fire management; reintroduction of fire to fire-prone ecosystems and careful use of fire surrogates; creation of new and flexible policies; and a serious reevaluation of urban planning and building in fire-prone locations. Future communities in California must be made less susceptible to wildfire damage, and the ecosystems upon which California depends must be made more resilient to wildfire disruption.