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14 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FIRMIT CONSULTING, the Editing Team, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, are grateful to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Finland, which fi nanced this important up-dating work. Sincere thanks go to the writers of the new and revised chapters of the book, notably Mark Appiah, who wrote Chapter 12 and to Timo V. Heikkilä who revised Chapter 9 and to Ronald Myers of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), whose text on Fire Ecology, forms a portion of Chapter 12 in this Handbook. FAO and its Forestry Department in Rome, Italy, has been closely involved with the up-dating work; particularly Jim Carle, who greatly contributed to sections of the Handbook. The Editor also wants to thank the FAO Assistant Director General Jan Heino, for allocating staff time, for this important work as well as for supporting the global distribution of this publication. Special thanks go to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and its Global Fire Initiative, who granted the permission to copy into this book a part of their latest development work on Fire Ecology; personal input was gratefully received from Ayn Schlinsky and Wendy Fulks. Thanks also go to the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and its director Johann Goldammer, for his advices to the Editing Team, likewise to Peter F. Moore who drafted the framework for the CBFiM write-up. The staff of the MFA, notably Jussi Viitanen, Markku Aho, Matti Nummelin, Sanna Leminen and Outi Einola-.Head all assisted in developing approaches for the updating process, which greatly forwarded the work. Final thanks go to Paul Sammer, who advised on the technical printing work in the up-dating process.
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