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Fire and rescue service reconfiguration: a case study in Nottinghamshire [PDF]

open access: yes, 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,.
Murphy, P, Parkin, C, Greenhalgh, K
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REAL-TIME UAV BASED GEOSPATIAL VIDEO INTEGRATED INTO THE FIRE BRIGADES CRISIS MANAGEMENT GIS SYSTEM [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
During a fire incident live airborne video offers the fire brigade an additional means of information. Essential for the effective usage of the daylight and infra red video data from the UAS is that the information is fully integrated into the crisis ...
M. van Persie   +4 more
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Australia safer together - A new approach to reducing the risk of bushfire in Victoria

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
The threat of bushfire is rising significantly globally, with Victoria being one of the most bushfire prone areas in the world. Bushfire risk is significantly increasing with climate change already affecting the fire regime, with the likelihood and ...
Alen Slijepcevic
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Understanding human-fire interactions in tropical forest regions : a case for interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Fire in the forested tropics has profound environmental, economic, and social impacts at multiple geographical scales. Causes of tropical fires are widely documented, although research contributions are from many disciplines, and each tends to focus on ...
Carmenta, R.   +14 more
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Ecological impact of fire place use in urban forests and consequences for visitor management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Urban forests are popular recreation areas in Europe. At the same time, these forests are important habitats for plants and animals and often harbour a high biodiversity.
Hegetschweiler, K. Tessa
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Fire regime and management in Canada's protected areas

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2022
Wildland fires are a vital ecological process in Canada's protected areas (PAs), resulting in both ecological benefits and detrimental disturbances. In the face of rapid global changes, maximizing fire's ecological benefits while minimizing its negative ...
Weiwei Wang   +3 more
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The provision of fire services in rural areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Grant, Wyn
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Gas-chromatography and UV-spectroscopy of Hymenoptera venoms obtained by trivial centrifugation

open access: yesData in Brief, 2018
This paper summarises gas-chromatography (GC–MS) and preliminary UV-spectroscopy analyses data of fresh, unmodified venom of aculeate hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps), mainly focusing on red imported fire ants. No solvents nor fractionation were used at
Eduardo G.P. Fox   +4 more
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Integrated forest fires management in Morocco

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
A new national strategy for prevention and fight against forest fires is being developed in Morocco. The establishment of this strategy is carried out step by step. The first step helped to better understand the Moroccan territorial context and concrete
Fouad Assali   +4 more
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Application of construction organization design in the sixth fire area of Nanshan coal field fire area in Shihezi

open access: yesGong-kuang zidonghua, 2018
In view of the problems of unreasonable planning, greater artificial influence factors existed in existing management method of coal fire area because of lacking of construction organization plan, taking the sixth fire area of Nanshan coal field fire ...
BAO Xingdong, CAO Fei
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