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Coerced resilience in fire management. [PDF]

J Environ Manage, 2019
Mechanisms underlying the loss of ecological resilience and a shift to an alternate regime with lower ecosystem service provisioning continues to be a leading debate in ecology, particularly in cases where evidence points to human actions and decision-making as the primary drivers of resilience loss and regime change.
Twidwell D, Wonkka CL, Wang HH, Grant WE, Allen CR, Fuhlendorf SD, Garmestani AS, Angeler DG, Taylor CA, Kreuter UP, Rogers WE.   +10 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes [PDF]

Communications Earth & Environment
Altered fire regimes are a global challenge, increasingly exacerbated by climate change, which modifies fire weather and prolongs fire seasons. These changing conditions heighten the vulnerability of ecosystems and human populations to the impacts of ...
I. Oliveras Menor, N. Prat-Guitart, G. L. Spadoni, A. Hsu, P. M. Fernandes, R. Puig-Gironès, D. Ascoli, B. A. Bilbao, V. Bacciu, L. Brotons, R. Carmenta, S. de-Miguel, L. G. Gonçalves, G. Humphrey, V. Ibarnegaray, M. W. Jones, M. S. Machado, A. Millán, R. de Morais Falleiro, F. Mouillot, C. Pinto, P. Pons, A. Regos, M. Senra de Oliveira, S. P. Harrison, D. Armenteras Pascual   +25 more
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Attention Control Training for the Prevention of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Firefighters: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2023
Background: Firefighters are at high risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with attention bias being a contributing factor. Attention Control Training (ACT) is a cognitive behavioral intervention for PTSD treatment and prevention, but
Zhou Xiwen, Du Linlin, Sun Hongxia, Li Huaiyi, Liu Xiang, Ma Ming, Xie Jilai   +6 more
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The Global Wildland Fire Network and the UNISDR international Wildfire Preparedness Mechanism (IWPM):

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Tasked by and member of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction through its Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction and the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group the Global Fire Monitoring Center in 2001 has initiated to ...
Johann Goldammer, Nikola Nikolov, Sergiy Zibtsev, Oyunsanaa Byambasuren, Bambang Hero Saharjo, Evgeni Ponomarev   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Integrated Fire Management in Indonesia - implementation in Indonesia

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Unmitigated forest fire in Indonesia represents a serious risk to human health, the environment, the national economy and international dimplomacy. At the same time it is one of the few tools that the smallholder farming community have ready access to ...
Brett Shields, Sujica Lusaka
doaj   +3 more sources

Validating the Staff Satisfaction Index and the Happy Career for In-Service Firefighters

Advances in Public Health, 2022
This study aims at validating the Staff Satisfaction Index (SSI) and the Happy Career (HC) scale for in-service firefighters. The SSI consists of two dimensions, namely, protection against hazards at work and welfare, with 16 subdimensions.
Rosnah Ismail, Nor Hisham Mohammad, Ashrul Riezal Asbar, Ismail Abdul Ghani, T. Ramayah   +4 more
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Integrated Fire Management

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2021
Fire drives evolutionary and ecological process in tropical savannas. Nevertheless, fire as a tool for managing biodiversity in wildlands is still controversial and encounters strong resistances. For decades, fire in savanna's protected areas was perceived as ‘an evil' requiring strong efforts for its suppression.
Ana Carolina Sena Barradas, Katia Torres Ribeiro   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western U.S. coniferous forests. [PDF]

, 2020
A 'resilient' forest endures disturbance and is likely to persist. Resilience to wildfire may arise from feedback between fire behaviour and forest structure in dry forest systems.
Fick, Stephen E, Koontz, Michael J, Latimer, Andrew M, North, Malcolm P, Werner, Chhaya M   +4 more
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Free-radical fluorescence emissions induced by 1,030 nm femtosecond laser filamentation in ethanol flame

Frontiers in Physics, 2022
We experimentally investigated clean optical emissions from multiple combustion intermediates including free radicals C2, CH, and CN at multiple wavelengths induced by ultrashort 1,030-nm laser pulses.
Ziting Li, Jinming Chen, Zhaoxiang Liu, Yi Li, Yuxi Chu, Ye Chen, Ya Cheng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The provision of fire services in rural areas [PDF]

, 2005
Fire services have been neglected in discussions of public service provision in rural areas. The way in which they are provided has a broader significance in terms of current debates about risk management.
Audit Commission, Bain, Sir G., Basnett, N., Blackstone, G.V., Entec, Fire Service College, HM Fire Service Inspectorate, HM Fire Service Inspectorate, HM Fire Service Inspectorate for Scotland, Home Office, Home Office, Maclean, D., Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Power, M., Public Record Office, Royal Commission, Wyn Grant   +16 more
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