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Investigating the relationship between stakeholder opinion about wildfire management and landscape context using GIS [PDF]
, 2006 Colorado residents living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) were asked about their perception of wildfire risk and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three fire management procedures: fuel reduction by thinning, fire suppression and prescribed fires.
Kaval, Pamela +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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An Optimization of UAV-Based Remote Monitoring for Improving Wildfire Response in Power Systems
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2023 Wildfires lead to colossal losses on territory, local, state and federal levels, affecting critical infrastructure, the economy, decarbonization goals, social sustainability and more.
Amarachi Umunnakwe, Katherine Davis
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The relationship between well-being and wildfire [PDF]
, 2006 In this study, the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, was used to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two hypothetical wildfire scenarios ...
Kaval, Pamela
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"Like wildfire" The east German rising of June 1953 [PDF]
, 2003 Before the archives of the East German state were opened in the early 1990s the rising of June 1953 had already been well documented, largely on the basis of eyewitness reports and the East German press.
Dale, G
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Wildfire management in Canada: Review, challenges and opportunities
Progress in Disaster Science, 2020 Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point. Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not. Climate change impacts and increasing interface values-at-risk are challenging suppression effectiveness and ...
Cordy Tymstra +3 more
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, 2002 The Firewise Home Page was created for people who live or vacation in fire prone areas of North America. The information contained here will help users become firewise individuals, and acquaint them with the challenges of living around interface/intermix
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Umzi: Unified Multi-Zone Indexing for Large-Scale HTAP [PDF]
, 2019 The rising demands of real-time analytics have emphasized the need for Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems, which can handle both fast transactions and analytics concurrently.
Barber, Ronald +5 more
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Driving Factors and Future Trends of Wildfires in Alberta, Canada
FireDepartures from historical wildfire regimes due to climate change have significant implications for the structure and composition of forests, as well as for fire management and operations in the Alberta region of Canada.
Maowei Bai +6 more
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