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Policy narratives in forest fire management

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2023
As the risk of forest fires increases around the globe, the issues of how to control, suppress, and prevent them are the subjects of growing public and political attention.
Nikola Tietze   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Factors Influencing County Commissioners’ Decisions about Burn Bans in the Southern Plains, USA

open access: yesLand, 2021
Woody plant encroachment in North American rangelands has led to calls for greater use of prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads and restore grazing productivity and grassland biodiversity.
Thomas W. McDaniel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prescribed Burning Reduces Large, High-Intensity Wildfires and Emissions in the Brazilian Savanna

open access: yesFire, 2021
Brazil has recently (2014) changed from a zero-fire policy to an Integrated Fire Management (IFM) program with the active use of prescribed burning (PB) in federal Protected Areas (PA) and Indigenous Territories (IT) of the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado ...
Filippe L.M. Santos   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation on sustainable development of fire safety management policies in smart cities based on big data

open access: yesMathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2023
The fire safety management policy is the premise for city managers to master the urban fire safety situation and solve the urban fire safety problems.
Xiaodong Qian
doaj   +1 more source

Bibliometric Analysis: Forest Fire Controlling Policy in Indonesia

open access: yesJurnal Pemerintahan dan Kebijakan, 2022
This study aims to identify and analyze the intensity of research developments with the topic of forest fire controlling policy in Indonesia in the last five years from 2017 to 2021 through bibliometric analysis.
Mutia Rahmah
doaj   +1 more source

EMS utilization predictors in a Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021
Background The provision of unnecessary Emergency Medical Services care remains a challenge throughout the US and contributes to Emergency Department overcrowding, delayed services and lower quality of care.
Luis M. Pinet-Peralta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting Low-Risk Fire Regimes: An Agent-Based Model to Explore Wildfire Mitigation Policy Options

open access: yesFire, 2023
Landscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient.
Paulo Flores Ribeiro   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thirty years international wildland fire conferences

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2021
In 1989, the International Wildland Fire Conferences (IWFCs) were launched as a platform for sharing knowledge and expertise in wildland (landscape) fire science, management, capacity building and policy development.
Johann Goldammer
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated Fire Management

open access: yesBiodiversidade 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.
Ana Carolina Sena Barradas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Repos, fire sales, and bankruptcy policy [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economic Dynamics, 2012
The events from the 2007–09 financial crisis have raised concerns that the failure of large financial institutions can lead to destabilizing fire sales of assets. The risk of fire sales is related to exemptions from bankruptcy's automatic stay provision enjoyed by a number of financial contracts, such as repo.
G. Antinolfi   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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