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Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Respiratory Disease Associated Healthcare Utilization in Gang‐Won Province, South Korea, in 2017

GeoHealth
This study aimed to elucidate the association between wildfire smoke exposure and healthcare utilization for respiratory diseases in Samcheok (City), Gangwon Province, South Korea, focusing on a major wildfire that occurred on 6–9 May 2017.
Min‐Taek Lee, Hoyoung Cha, Ju Won Lee, Jongjin Baik, Hae In Jung, Kyoung Min Moon, Changhyun Jun, Sun‐Young Jung, Kang‐Mo Gu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ground robot technologies in wildfire risk reduction. The viewpoint of the fire service

Progress in Disaster Science
Background: Robots are not widely used in wildfire risk reduction. Firefighters do not commonly know how to use them and technology providers are not aware of key operational directions for improvements.
Pawel Gromek, Thomas Lowe
doaj   +1 more source

Resilience‐as‐doing: A relational model for living practice

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Dominant frameworks treat resilience as a capacity to withstand disturbance and recover, something systems, communities or individuals either have or lack. This paper proposes a different understanding, grounded in relational onto‐epistemology and first‐person, practice‐based, autoethnographic inquiry situated within a household garden.
Katie Moon
wiley   +1 more source

Wildfire probability assessment and analysis based on multi-source data in Guangxi Province, China

Ecological Indicators
Wildfires are key environmental variables in global climate monitoring systems that significantly impact ecosystems, human life, and property. This study assessed the probability of wildfires in Guangxi Province using multi-source data and the Evidence ...
Kun Xu, Xin Pan, Kevin Tansey, Akram Abdulla, Rufat Guluzade, Zi Yang, Min He, Congbao Zhu, Shile Yang, Yingbao Yang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating Climate-Sensitive Wildfire Risk and Tree Mortality Models for Use in Broad-Scale U.S. Forest Carbon Projections. [PDF]

Forests, 2023
Pokharel R, Latta G, Ohrel SB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Is Experience the Best Teacher? Knowledge, Perceptions, and Awareness of Wildfire Risk. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
Spano G, Elia M, Cappelluti O, Colangelo G, Giannico V, D'Este M, Lafortezza R, Sanesi G.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From traditional practice to unsustainable exploitation: Fruit overharvesting on the endangered relict palm Jubaea chilensis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero, Francisca Gálvez, Marisol Arriagada‐Honores, Andrés Jesús Garrido, Daniela Paredes‐Muñoz, Bastián Fuentes‐Valdés, Fernanda Torres‐Cifuentes, Francisco E. Fontúrbel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Romania - Management of Wildfire Risk

Romania faces rising wildfire risk, with both frequency and impact expected to intensify. In 2021, Romania was identified as one of the countries in the European Union (EU) most affected by wildfires. Despite the country's temperate continental climate, which generally reduces wildfire risk, human activities have contributed to increasing incidents ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management. [PDF]

Data Brief, 2021
D'Este M, Giannico V, Lafortezza R, Sanesi G, Elia M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Current and future wildfire risk in the peri-urban Acadian Forest Region

, 2013
The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and the peri-urban has grown simultaneously, creating new Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where development comes into contact – and intermingles with – wildlands.
Whitman, Ellen M.
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