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Mark Hudson

Fire Management in the American West

Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires

Mark Hudson

Mark Hudson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Global Political Economy Program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Wildfires and Oil Sands: How Resource Extraction and Climate Disasters Are Connected

Four years ago, in Fire Management in the American West, I suggested that behind the question of who (if anyone) might be held responsible for the big fires hitting the western United States were conflicts over who and what forests are for. At its heart, the battle was over who has the power to determine how human communities reorganize and transform nature.

University Press of Colorado University of Alaska Press Utah State University Press University of Wyoming Press