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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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From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi‐structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via
Lilach Alon, Tali Malinoff, Inbar Levkovich   +2 more
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Navigating the Wildfire–Pandemic Interface: Public Perceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 Wildfire Season in Arizona

Fire, 2020
COVID-19 has complicated wildfire management and public safety for the 2020 fire season. It is unclear whether COVID-19 has impacted the ability of residents in the wildland–urban interface to prepare for and evacuate from wildfire, or the extent to ...
Catrin M. Edgeley, Jack T. Burnett
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A Data-Driven Automated Mitigation Approach for Resilient Wildfire Response in Power Systems

IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2023
The escalating impact of wildfires on critical power systems, including suppression and restoration costs, bankruptcy, loss of lives, necessitates a more sustainable and resilience-oriented response approach.
Amarachi Umunnakwe, Katherine Davis
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Review of California Wildfire Evacuations from 2017 to 2019 [PDF]

, 2020
Between 2017 and 2019, California experienced a series of devastating wildfires that together led over one million people to be ordered to evacuate. Due to the speed of many of these wildfires, residents across California found themselves in challenging ...
Broader, Jacquelyn C., Shaheen, Susan A., PhD, Wong, Stephen D.   +2 more
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A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
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Assessing Wildfire Risk in South Korea Under Climate Change Using the Maximum Entropy Model and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway Scenarios

Atmosphere
For effective management and prevention, wildfire risk prediction needs to consider the substantial impacts of climate change on wildfire patterns.
Jukyeong Choi, Heemun Chae
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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 more
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Reductions in Anthropogenic Aerosol and Greenhouse Gas Drive Divergent Regional Impacts on Wildfire Risks in China Under Carbon Neutrality

Geophysical Research Letters
Understanding the impacts of future emissions reductions on wildfire risk is critical for climate adaptation under carbon neutrality scenarios. Here, this study investigates how reductions in aerosol and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions affect wildfire ...
Lili Ren, Shicheng Yan, Yang Yang, Hailong Wang   +3 more
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Firewise [PDF]

, 2002
The Firewise Home Page was created for people who live or vacation in fire prone areas of North America. The information contained here will help users become firewise individuals, and acquaint them with the challenges of living around interface/intermix

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