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Ember risk modelling for improved wildfire risk management in the peri-urban fringes
, 2021 Although embers are a leading cause of house loss and damage from wildfire, risk reduction activities such as vegetation management and planning requirements do not adequately account for the risk of embers. To help address this, a model of the potential
Wang, Ziyuan +2 more
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Burning without borders: cooperatively managing wildfire risk in northern Colorado [PDF]
, 2020 2 pagesBecause wildfires don’t stop at ownership boundaries, managers from governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Northern Colorado are taking steps to pro-actively “co-manage” wildfire risk through the Northern Colorado Fireshed ...
Cheng, Antony S.
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Can Satellite-Observed Wildfire Incidents Alone Project Next-Year State Transition? A Case Study in British Columbia, Canada Using a Physics-Regularized Conditional Categorical Generative Model [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesWildfire risk plays a critical role in natural disaster emergency response and climate change mitigation. Existing data-driven methods mainly focus on short-term wildfire forecasting (days to months), often relying on numerous driving factors and binary ...
Y. Zhu, Z. Xu, L. L. Xu
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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 +21 more
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Co-managing wildfire suppression in southwestern Utah [PDF]
, 2020 2 pagesIn a given area, there are commonly multiple agencies that manage wildfire suppression on different jurisdictions. These agencies can face divergent or even competing missions and mandates, yet must also address the cross-boundary nature of ...
McAvoy, Darren J., Davis, Emily Jane
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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 +2 more
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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 +4 more
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2023 Pacific Northwest Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment
These data are a product of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment (2023 PNW QWRA). The purpose of the 2023 PNW QWRA is to provide objective, science-based risk analytics that can be used to support strategic risk management ...
McEvoy, Andy +3 more
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Progress in Disaster ScienceThis 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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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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