Forest fire prevention management legal regime between China and the United States

Abstract

Precautions against forest fires, a significant element in the prevention and reduction of natural disasters in China, are very important to the development of public emergency systems, as well as to the safety of forest resources, ecology, people’s lives and properties. The USA has extensive experience in forest fire management, which has been widely accepted and used by other countries. The precautions taken by China and the USA to prevent forest fires have been compared in a great number of previous studies. However, most of the studies have focused merely on fire extinguishing technologies and management methods; they have lacked a comparative study on the legal aspects of management. This paper will consider five distinct aspects related to forest fire management between China and the USA and will analyze the similarities and differences as well as study other features to facilitate work related to precautions against forest fires in China.