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Wildfire Risk Mitigation: A Paradigm Shift in Power Systems Planning and Operation

IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2020
Managing the risk of wildfires has been arguably the biggest recent challenge of electric utilities with infrastructure located in the wildland-urban interface.
John W. Muhs, Masood Parvania, Mohammad Shahidehpour   +2 more
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A global outlook on increasing wildfire risk: Current policy situation and future pathways

Trees, Forests and People, 2023
Aim: to understand how wildfire risk policies are designed to mitigate11 The goal of the analysis here is not to promote wildfire exclusion, but to reduce the likelihood of fire ignition and manage the growth and intensity of wildfire events. the impacts
Pooja Pandey, Gabriela Huidobro, Luis Filipe Lopes, Anne Ganteaume, Davide Ascoli, Conceição Colaco, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Theodore M. Giannaros, Rob Gazzard, Georgios Boustras, Toddi Steelman, Valerie Charlton, Euan Ferguson, Judith Kirschner, Kerryn Little, Cathelijne Stoof, William Nikolakis, Carmen Rodriguez Fernández-Blanco, Claudio Ribotta, Hugo Lambrechts, Mariña Fernandez, Simona Dossi   +21 more
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Wildfire risks under a changing climate: Synthesized assessments of wildfire risks over southwestern China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Wildfire events in southwestern China resulted in catastrophic loss of property and human life, and the localized wildfire risks show differentiated trends under global warming scenarios. In the case of quantitating climate impacts and localizing wildfire risks, synthesized assessments of wildfire risks of high-incident areas in southwestern China are ...
Yuanxin Xu, Yuanxin Xu, Haiyan Guo, Haiyan Guo, Jia Liu, Jia Liu, Jia Liu, Rui Sun, Rui Sun, Xiaolan Li, Xiaolan Li   +10 more
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Targeted grazing and mechanical thinning enhance forest stand resilience under a narrow range of wildfire scenarios

Ecosphere, 2022
Increasing wildfire activity has spurred ecological resilience‐based management that aims to reduce the vulnerability of forest stands to wildfire by reducing the probability of crown fire.
Victoria M. Donovan, Caleb P. Roberts, Dillon T. Fogarty, David A. Wedin, Dirac Twidwell   +4 more
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Wildfire Risk and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments Along the US-Mexico Border: A Review of the Science (1986-2019)

Air, Soil and Water Research, 2020
The ecosystems along the border between the United States and Mexico are at increasing risk to wildfire due to interactions among climate, land-use, and fuel loads.
Katherine M Laushman, Seth M Munson, Miguel L Villarreal   +2 more
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Transcending Parallel Play: Boundary Spanning for Collective Action in Wildfire Management

Fire, 2021
A key challenge in the United States is how to manage wildfire risk across boundaries and scales, as roles, responsibilities, and ability to act are distributed among actors in ways that do not always incentivize collective action.
Emily Jane Davis, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Antony S. Cheng, Meredith Jacobson   +3 more
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Compound risk of wildfire and inaccessible shelters is disproportionately impacting disadvantaged communities

Progress in Disaster Science
This study proposes measuring access to shelters and wildfire risks in tandem rather than in isolation to prevent wildfires from turning into human disasters.
Alireza Ermagun, Fatemeh Janatabadi
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Socially vulnerable US Pacific Northwest communities are more likely to experience wildfires

Environmental Research Letters
Quantitative wildfire risk assessments increasingly are used to prioritize areas for investments in wildfire risk mitigation actions. However, current assessments of wildfire risk derived from fire models built primarily on biophysical data do not ...
Caitlyn Reilley, Christopher J Dunn, Mindy S Crandall, Jeffrey D Kline   +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, Brian J. Stocks, Xinli Cai, Mike D. Flannigan   +3 more
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Fueling the fires – An exploration of the drivers and the scope for management of European wildfire risk under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Climate Risk Management
As socio-natural phenomena, wildfires are exacerbated by climate change and socioeconomic dynamics. However, the role of socioeconomic uncertainty in shaping future wildfire risk and management remains largely neglected.
Eva Preinfalk, John Handmer
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