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Identifying residential wildfire risk reduction successes and failures using an ecosystem approach
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 This presentation will explore the global threat to life and property from wildfire and demonstrate examples of positive community engagement work. In the United States and around the world, a complacent that underestimates their risk to wildfire and a ...
Lucian H Deaton +2 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthWildfire 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 +18 more
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Legacy effects of locally extinct flagship species on protected areas
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Protected areas (PAs) are often established to conserve flagship megafauna so as to mobilize political support and secure sustained conservation investment, with the expectation that flagship‐centered governance will also protect habitat. Despite such efforts, flagship species can experience extirpation, raising a fundamental question: do conservation ...
Rachakonda Sreekar +6 more
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Economic Tools to Design Efficient Integrated Wildfire Fighting Management Strategies [PDF]
In spite of the increasing efforts on behalf of the administrations to meliorate qualitatively the prevention and combat measures undertaken, the wildfire scenario in Mediterranean regions has been worsen and one fears that the situation will be ...
Isabel Mendes
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Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding multinational enterprise (MNE) resilience in the era of cascading crises. We define resilience as the MNE's capacity to absorb disruption, maintain or restore functioning, and reconfigure operations as conditions shift.
Gerard George, Chang Hoon Oh
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Boots on the ground, boots around the table: managing rangeland wildfire risk in Oregon and Idaho [PDF]
, 2019 2 pagesThe rangelands of southeastern Oregon and southern Idaho have experienced increasingly large wildfires that threaten multiple values and can exceed Bureau of Land Management (BLM) response capacity.
Davis, Emily Jane
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An Agent-Based Model of Mediterranean Agricultural Land-Use/Cover Change for Examining Wildfire Risk [PDF]
Humans have a long history of activity in Mediterranean Basin landscapes. Spatial heterogeneity in these landscapes hinders our understanding about the impacts of changes in human activity on ecological processes, such as wildfire.
George Perry +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the intricate relationship between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and energy market dynamics, focusing on fossil‐based and renewable/low‐carbon energy assets. Utilising a comprehensive dataset spanning from April 1987 to December 2023, comprising monthly observations of CPU, stock market returns, spot oil prices and ...
Dimitrios Asteriou, Anastasia Dimiski
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Wildfire Risk Assessment Considering Seasonal Differences: A Case Study of Nanning, China
, 2023 Wildfire disasters pose a significant threat to the stability and sustainability of ecosystems. The assessment of wildfire risk based on a seasonal dimension has contributed to improving the spatiotemporal targeting of fire prevention efforts.
Anchao Yin +5 more
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Climatic Drivers of the Area Burned by Winter Wildfires in Northern Italy
International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.This study investigates winter wildfires occurring between November and April in northern Italy over the period 2008–2022. By integrating high‐resolution burned‐area data with gridded climatic indices derived from 150 weather stations, it identifies spatial and temporal wildfire patterns, highlights the most fire‐prone mountain areas through pixel ...
Alice Baronetti +2 more
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