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Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 5, September 2025.We evaluated the flammability of leaves based on their shape and size. Rectangular and triangular shapes showed high flammability that did not vary with size, while circular shapes had minimal flammability, but it varied with size. These findings indicate that leaf shape and size impact flammability.
Esthela Rodríguez‐García +1 more
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L’Aquila in tre atti. Dalle ordinanze per soddisfare il "fabbisogno alloggiativo" all’esplosione di case nella città-territorio [PDF]
lo Squaderno, 2015 La cosa più urgente ed emergente all’indomani del terremoto che colpì alle 3:32 del 6 aprile 2009 L’Aquila, capoluogo d’Abruzzo e città media di circa 70.000 abitanti, fu quella di fornire una sistemazione e alloggio a tutti quelli che avevano la casa
Claudia Faraone
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The legal status of Uncertainty [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2011 An exponential improvement of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models was observed during the last decade (Lynch, 2008). Civil Protection (CP) systems exploited Meteo services in order to redeploy their actions towards the prediction and prevention of ...
M. Altamura +4 more
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European Policy Analysis, Volume 11, Issue 3, Page 420-432, Summer 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the fire and rescue services sector in Sweden in the period 1986–2021, and explains the timing of bureaucratic reforms using the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF). In this study, we insert institutions in MSF by employing a two‐level analysis; we highlight the interactions among experts acting as policy entrepreneurs over ...
Kerstin Eriksson +3 more
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Long‐Term Fire and Vegetation Change at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Peru
Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 3, May 2025.Cocha Cashu is a dynamic system that has experienced various forms of past ecological turnover. However, the dynamism seen at Cocha Cashu was not caused by intensive human activities in the past. ABSTRACT Past human influence from the pre‐Columbian and colonial periods may have played a role in shaping modern Amazonian vegetation.
C. N. H. McMichael +2 more
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Social science integration at state and federal fish and wildlife organizations in the United States
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract Increasingly, conservation professionals and scholars recognize the need for more holistic integration of social science in fish and wildlife management. This call is often framed around the complexity of 21st century conservation challenges and changing societal values toward fish and wildlife and its management.
Michael R. Quartuch +7 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This article uses expectation gap theory to explore news coverage of the leadership performance of a national political leader in a major bushfire disaster in Australia. It does so to identify the types of behaviors and leadership that leader enacted and embodied during these events and what fire‐affected communities expected that politician ...
Jacqui Ewart, Margaret Cook
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La Pianificazione Comunale per il rischio incendi di interfaccia
GEOmedia, 2008 Municipality planning for urban/forest interface fires risk Brush fires constantly torment Italy, especially during summer times. In this context the italian Department of Civil Protection (DPC) aims to coordinate the various entities implied on the ...
PierLuigi Soddu +3 more
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Incendis periurbans i incendis rurals
, 2002 Il faut traiter les incendies forestiers d'une manière spécifique, en tenant en compte les interactions sociales qui ont lieu sur le territoire et les caractéristiques du territoire lui-même. Cet article-ci cherche à montrer les milieux qui, malgré leur proximité, ont des caractéristiques d'ignition complètement différentes: d'une part, l'Aire ...
Badia i Perpinyà, Anna +1 more
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Reptile responses to fire across the western Mediterranean Basin
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Effects of anthropogenic activities, including climate change, are modifying fire regimes, and the dynamic nature of these modifications requires identification of general patterns of organisms’ responses to fire. This is a challenging task because of the high complexity of factors involved (including climate, geography, land use, and species ...
Xavier Santos +4 more
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