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Higher Snowfall Intensity is Associated with Reduced Impacts of Warming Upon Winter Snow Ablation
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 Warming temperatures are altering winter snowpack accumulation and ablation. Physically based snowpack simulations have indicated that increasing precipitation intensity may buffer the impacts of warming on annual maximum snow water equivalents. Here, we
Adrienne M. Marshall +3 more
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Assessing Wildfire Exposure to Communities and Protected Areas in Portugal
Fire, 2021 During the 2017 wildfire season in Portugal, unprecedented episodes burned 6% of the country’s area and underscored the need for a long-term comprehensive solution to mitigate future wildfire disasters.
Fermin Alcasena +5 more
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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 +16 more
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Jàmbá, 2011 South Africa is a complex and dynamic society, with overwhelming and increasing problems with disaster risk in the vulnerable urban communities in and around its rapidly growing metropolitan centres.
Ann-Sofie Roth, Per Becker
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Recycling, 2018 In Japan, where soy sauce production and the fishery industries thrive, soy sauce squeezing residue (SSSR) and fishmeal, which are operational byproducts of these sectors, are produced as waste materials for recycling.
Naoharu Murasawa +3 more
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Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2005 ABSTRACT Southern Europe suffers from forest fires. The management of these disasters is of importance to both government authorities and the public. This article presents the results of a research project aimed at modeling forest fire events and producing fire risk maps.
Bonazountas, M. +3 more
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Fire and rescue service reconfiguration: a case study in Nottinghamshire [PDF]
, 2012 The Fire Cover Review in Nottinghamshire arises out of the Integrated Risk Management Planning process introduced in the UK by the Fire and Rescue 2004 Act,.
Greenhalgh, K, Murphy, P, Parkin, C
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Fire Risk Sub-Module Assessment under Solvency II. Calculating the Highest Risk Exposure
Mathematics, 2021 The European Directive 2009/138 of Solvency II requires adopting a new approach based on risk, applying a standard formula as a market proxy in which the risk profile of insurers is fundamental.
Elena Badal-Valero +2 more
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Assessing the Effects of Fuel Moisture Content on the 2018 Megafires in California
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 In 2018, the megafire episodes on record occurred in California, causing a large number of civilian deaths and damages. As an important part of the “fire environment triangle,” the fuel moisture content (FMC) of both live (LFMC) and dead ...
Zhenyu Kang, Xingwen Quan, Gengke Lai
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DEVELOPING VALIDATION OF FOREST FIRE RISK MAPS BASED ON HISTORICAL FIRE INCIDENCES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021 Large forest lands are damaged every year due to wild fires in Turkey. Prompt detection and rapid intervention is the key factors of firefighting activities.
A. E. Akay, A. Erdoğan
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