Overview
- ​Presents previously unavailable material on identification, assessment and mitigation of environmental fires
- Facilitates readers with knowledge in one area to focus on topics where they lack expertise
- Extensively cites detailed studies and reports to support in depth study in each of the topic areas
Part of the book series: The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series (SFPES)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Brian J. Meacham, PhD, PE (CT&MA), EUR ING, CEng (UK), FIFireE, FSFPE
Brian is Managing Principal of Meacham Associates in the USA. He has more than 35 years of professional experience in academia, consulting and industry. He focuses primarily on risk-informed and performance-based solutions to fire and regulatory challenges in the built environment. Brian is Chair of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), Chair of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Fire Risk Assessment Methods, a Past President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), and a past Chair of the Inter-jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee (IRCC). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Connecticut and Massachusetts, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers (UK), a registered European Engineer (EUR ING), a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and a Fulbright Global Scholar.
Margaret McNamee, PhD
Margaret McNamee is Professor in Fire Safety Engineering at Lund University in Sweden. She has her technical expertise in understanding and characterizing the environmental impact of fires and has worked in the field of fire and combustion research for more than 30 years. Among other things, Margaret is active in the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) and was the first author of the IAFSS position paper on fire safety research challenges for the future – IAFSS Agenda 2030 for a Fire Safe World.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Fire and the Environment
Book Subtitle: Impacts and Mitigation
Editors: Brian J. Meacham, Margaret McNamee
Series Title: The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94356-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94355-4Published: 29 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94358-5Published: 29 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94356-1Published: 28 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-3638
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 470
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 192 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Environmental Health, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts