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Facing the Wildfire Spread Risk Challenge: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

Fire, 2023
Wildfire is a sudden and highly destructive natural disaster that poses significant challenges in terms of response and rescue efforts. Influenced by factors such as climate, combustible materials, and ignition sources, wildfires have been increasingly ...
Jingjing Sun, Wenwen Qi, Yuandong Huang, Chong Xu, Wentao Yang   +4 more
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Wildfire Risk Levels at the Local Scale: Assessing the Relative Influence of Hazard, Exposure, and Social Vulnerability

Fire, 2022
Wildfire risk assessment provides important tools to fire management, by analysing and aggregating information regarding multiple, interactive dimensions.
Rafaello Bergonse, Sandra Oliveira, Pedro Santos, José Luís Zêzere   +3 more
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Wildfire risk management across diverse bioregions in a changing climate

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2022
Wildfire risk-management needs to consider interrelated factors that influence fire regimes, including changing climate and sometimes conflicting stakeholder priorities.
Tristan Campbell, S. Don Bradshaw, Kingsley W. Dixon, Philip Zylstra   +3 more
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California wine grape growers need support to manage risks from wildfire and smoke

California Agriculture, 2023
California has experienced an increase in the size and severity of wildfires in recent years, with wide-ranging impacts to agriculture. The 2020 wildfire season was particularly catastrophic, causing billions of dollars in damage to the state's world ...
Emily Zakowski, Lauren E. Parker, Devon Johnson, John Aguirre, Steven M. Ostoja   +4 more
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Explaining changes in perceived wildfire risk related to the mountain pine beetle outbreak in north central Colorado

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Longitudinal studies of risk perception, while growing, remain an understudied area of risk analysis research. Natural resource-based communities provide a key backdrop for analyzing dynamic risk perceptions and related social-ecological processes. Since
Hua Qin, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Christine Sanders, Jamie Vickery, Martha Bass   +4 more
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Examining the influence of biophysical conditions on wildland-urban interface homeowners' wildfire risk mitigation activities in fire-prone landscapes

Ecology 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, Jeffrey D. Kline, Alan A. Ager, Keith A. Olsen, Karen C. Short   +4 more
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Preterm birth and term low birth weight associated with wildfire-specific PM2.5: A cohort study in New South Wales, Australia during 2016–2019

Environment International, 2023
Background: Exposure to wildfire smoke has been linked with a range of health outcomes. However, to date, evidence is limited for the association between wildfire-specific PM2.5, a primary emission of wildfire smoke, and adverse birth outcomes. Objective:
Yiwen Zhang, Tingting Ye, Pei Yu, Rongbin Xu, Gongbo Chen, Wenhua Yu, Jiangning Song, Yuming Guo, Shanshan Li   +8 more
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Wildfires in the Chornobyl exclusion zone—Risks and consequences [PDF]

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2021
Abstract Following the 1986 Chornobyl accident, an area approaching 5000 km2 surrounding the nuclear plant was abandoned, creating the Chornobyl exclusion zone (CEZ). Although this area likely contains the most radioactive terrestrial ecosystem on earth, the absence of humans and associated activities for nearly 35 years since the ...
Beresford, NA, Barnett, CL, Gashchak, S, Kashparov, V, Kirieiev, SI, Levchuk, S, Morozova, V, Smith, JT, Wood, M   +8 more
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Developing Behavioral and Evidence-Based Programs for Wildfire Risk Mitigation

Fire, 2020
The actions of residents in the wildland–urban interface can influence the private and social costs of wildfire. Wildfire programs that encourage residents to take action are often delivered without evidence of effects on behavior.
Hilary Byerly, James R. Meldrum, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia Champ, Jamie Gomez, Lilia Falk, Chris Barth   +6 more
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Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Large and severe wildfires are an observable consequence of an increasingly arid American West. There is increasing consensus that human communities, land managers, and fire managers need to adapt and learn to live with wildfires.
Christopher J Dunn, Christopher D O’Connor, Jesse Abrams, Matthew P Thompson, Dave E Calkin, James D Johnston, Rick Stratton, Julie Gilbertson-Day   +7 more
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