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Wildfires and climate justice: future wildfire events predicted to disproportionally impact socioeconomically vulnerable communities in North Carolina

Frontiers in Public Health
Wildfire events are becoming increasingly common across many areas of the United States, including North Carolina (NC). Wildfires can cause immediate damage to properties, and wildfire smoke conditions can harm the overall health of exposed communities ...
Raquel Winker, Raquel Winker, Alexis Payton, Alexis Payton, Eric Brown, Eric Brown, Elena McDermott, Elena McDermott, Jonathan H. Freedman, Chris Lenhardt, Lauren A. Eaves, Lauren A. Eaves, Rebecca C. Fry, Rebecca C. Fry, Rebecca C. Fry, Julia E. Rager, Julia E. Rager, Julia E. Rager, Julia E. Rager   +18 more
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The Role of Traditional Fire Management Practices in Mitigating Wildfire Risk: A Case Study of Greece

Fire
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of traditional fire management practices in the general mitigation of wildfire risk in Greece. Major emphasis was placed on assessing people’s opinions about the perceived effectiveness of traditional ...
Dimitrios Kalfas, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Maria Georgitsi   +4 more
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Conflicting Discourses on Wildfire Risk and the Role of Local Media in the Amazonian and Temperate Forests

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019
This article examines how risk is communicated by different actors, particularly local print newspapers and actors at the community level, in two different geographical contexts that are severely affected by wildfires—the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic ...
Nathália Thaís Cosmo da Silva, Urbano Fra.Paleo, José Ambrósio Ferreira Neto   +2 more
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Characterizing Risks for Wildfires and Prescribed Fires in the Great Plains

Fire
Increasing wildfire activities across the Great Plains has raised concerns about the effectiveness and safety of prescribed fire as a land management tool.
Zifei Liu, Izuchukwu Oscar Okafor, Mayowa Boluwatife George   +2 more
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Woody Cover Fuels Large Wildfire Risk in the Eastern US

Geophysical Research Letters
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern United States; however, what factors are heightening large wildfire risk remains unclear. Increases in fuel loads from woody encroachment and canopy infilling have been associated with increasing wildfire ...
Michaella A. Ivey, Carissa L. Wonkka, Noah C. Weidig, Victoria M. Donovan   +3 more
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Wildfire risk, salience & housing demand

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018
Abstract In this paper we develop a parsimonious model that links underlying changes in location-specific risk perceptions to housing market dynamics. Given estimates of both the price and quantity effects induced by shocks to agents' beliefs, the model allows us to draw inferences about the underlying changes in risk perceptions that gave rise to ...
Shawn J. McCoy, Randall P. Walsh
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Interactions between Resident Risk Perceptions and Wildfire Risk Mitigation: Evidence from Simultaneous Equations Modeling

Fire, 2019
Fire science emphasizes that mitigation actions on residential property, including structural hardening and maintaining defensible space, can reduce the risk of wildfire at a home.
James R. Meldrum, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia Champ, Jamie Gomez, Lilia Falk, Christopher Barth   +5 more
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A data-driven analysis and optimization of the impact of prescribed fire programs on wildfire risk in different regions of the USA. [PDF]

Nat Hazards (Dordr), 2023
Jose E, Agarwal P, Zhuang J.
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New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation. [PDF]

Fire Ecol, 2022
Yung L, Gray BJ, Wyborn C, Miller BA, Williams DR, Essen M.   +5 more
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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
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