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Economic Tools to Design Efficient Integrated Wildfire Fighting Management Strategies [PDF]

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In spite of the increasing efforts on behalf of the administrations to meliorate qualitatively the prevention and combat measures undertaken, the wildfire scenario in Mediterranean regions has been worsen and one fears that the situation will be ...
Isabel Mendes
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Crook County, Oregon Community Wildfire Protection Plan

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The Crook County Wildfire Protection Plan documents the community planning process in Crook County and includes the following components: -- Background information on the Community Wildfire Protection Plan purpose and process, community profile ...
Crook County Community Wildfire Protection Plan Committee
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Examining the influence of biophysical conditions on wildland-urban interface homeowners' wildfire risk mitigation activities in fire-prone landscapes

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Expansion of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and the increasing size and number of wildfires has policy-makers and wildfire managers seeking ways to reduce wildfire risk in communities located near fire-prone forests.
Christine S. Olsen   +4 more
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Inducing Private Wildfire Risk Mitigation: Experimental Investigation of Measures on Adjacent Public Lands [PDF]

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Increasing private wildfire risk mitigation is an important part of the larger forest restoration policy challenge. Data from an economic experiment are used to evaluate the effectiveness of providing fuel treatments on public land adjacent to private ...
Joseph M. Little   +4 more
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An Agent-Based Model of Mediterranean Agricultural Land-Use/Cover Change for Examining Wildfire Risk [PDF]

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Humans have a long history of activity in Mediterranean Basin landscapes. Spatial heterogeneity in these landscapes hinders our understanding about the impacts of changes in human activity on ecological processes, such as wildfire.
George Perry   +3 more
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Trust: a planning guide for wildfire agencies and practitioners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In increasing numbers, agency personnel, interest groups, and residents of at-risk communities are coming together to consider wildfire problems and taking steps to solve them.
Allan Curtis
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Recovering and rebuilding from Oregon's 2020 wildfires: key findings and recommendations

open access: yes, 2021
report presented by the Governor's Wildfire Economic Recovery Council ; written and compiled by Matthew Garrett and Ariane Le Chevallier.Title from PDF cover (viewed on March 3, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as

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CardioRespiratory Effects of Wildfire Suppression (CREWS) study: an experimental overview

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
An increase in the severity of global wildfires necessitates examination of the associated health risks, particularly in wildfire personnel. Exposure to particulate matter from smoke (PM2.5), soil/dust, and ash (PM4) and other wildfire-associated ...
L. Madden Brewster   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal wildfire insurance in the wildland-urban interface in the presence of a government subsidy for fire risk mitigation [PDF]

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We investigate the effectiveness of a government subsidy and mitigation based insurance contracts at discouraging migration into the wildland interface and at inducing incentives for risk mitigation.
Mariam Lankoande   +2 more
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Reply to: Fire activity as measured by burned area reveals weak effects of ENSO in China

open access: yesNature Communications, 2022
Qichao Yao   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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