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FireWildfire risk has been exacerbated across Europe by climate change favoring more damaging and severe wildfire events. This evolving wildfire risk context interacts with a broad landscape of EU policies including those on nature conservation, forestry ...
Eduard Plana +10 more
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Investigating the relationship between stakeholder opinion about wildfire management and landscape context using GIS [PDF]
, 2006 Colorado residents living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) were asked about their perception of wildfire risk and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three fire management procedures: fuel reduction by thinning, fire suppression and prescribed fires.
Kaval, Pamela +2 more
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From Text to Value: Measuring and Pricing Firm Climate Risk Exposure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how the prominence and tone of climate risk disclosures affect firm value and strategic climate positioning for large European nonfinancial companies. We developed a firm‐level climate risk exposure (CRE) index that assesses climate risks within corporate narratives across four EU categories: transition risk, physical risk ...
Stefano Dell'Atti +2 more
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Fueling Fire-Adapted Communities Through a Rapid Wildfire Structure Risk Assessment
International Journal of Disaster Risk ScienceWhile wildfires can be beneficial and part of a natural process, there have been numerous instances around the world, particularly in recent years, where wildfires have had devastating consequences for society.
Jennifer I. Schmidt +4 more
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Climate Stress Testing on European SME Securitised Loans Under Climate Mitigation Scenarios
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Assessing the future impact of climate risks on the probability of default (PD) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is challenging due to limited disclosure, policy uncertainty and exposure to physical risks. This paper addresses this gap by integrating macroeconomic variables from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS ...
Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese
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The relationship between well-being and wildfire [PDF]
, 2006 In this study, the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, was used to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two hypothetical wildfire scenarios ...
Kaval, Pamela
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Wildfire risk along the wildland-urban interface in Oklahoma in relation to encroaching eastern redcedar [PDF]
, 2022 Across the United States, the number of wildfires has been increasing, but this can especially be felt in the Great Plains, where some of the most drastic increases in wildfire frequency and size have occurred.
Nordhues, Rose
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Probability-Based Wildfire Risk Measure for Decision-Making [PDF]
, 2020 Wildfire is a natural element of many ecosystems as well as a natural disaster to be prevented. Climate and land usage changes have increased the number and size of wildfires in the last few decades.
Rodríguez Martínez, Adán +3 more
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Issue Construals and Corporate Water Stewardship
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the face of mounting environmental and social pressures, the importance of responsible corporate water stewardship (CWS) should be evident, yet not all businesses are taking water management issues seriously. The aim of this study is to explore why differences in CWS persist, especially within industries facing similar resource challenges ...
Daina Mazutis +3 more
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Quantitative risk assessment for the compound drought-wildfire disaster
Scientific ReportsCompound drought-wildfire (CDW) disasters, driven by the interaction of drought and wildfire, are increasing worldwide. Despite this trend, there is still a lack of methodologies for quantitatively assessing CDW disaster risk, which makes it difficult to
Kyunghun Kim, Hung Soo Kim
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