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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Longitudinal studies of risk perception, while growing, remain an understudied area of risk analysis research. Natural resource-based communities provide a key backdrop for analyzing dynamic risk perceptions and related social-ecological processes. Since
Hua Qin +4 more
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Modeling the Risk Reduction Benefit of Forest Management Using a Case Study in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Ecology and Society, 2022 Across the United States, wildfire severity and frequency are increasing, placing many properties at risk of harm or destruction. We quantify and compare how different forest management strategies designed to increase forest resilience and health reduce ...
Samuel G. Evans +6 more
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Developing wildfire risk probability models for Eucalyptus globulus stands in Portugal
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2013 This paper presents a model to predict annual wildfire risk in pure and even-aged eucalypt stands in Portugal. Emphasis was in developing a management-oriented model, i.e., a model that might both: (a) help assess wildfire occurrence probability as a ...
Botequim B +6 more
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Values of the public at risk of wildfire and its management [PDF]
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2018 Wildfire management agencies increasingly seek to understand what the public values and expects to be protected from wildfire and its management. Recent conceptual development demonstrates the utility of considering values at three levels of abstraction: localised valued entities such as people, places and objects; valued attributes of communities and ...
Kathryn J. H. Williams +2 more
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Perceptions of wildfire management practices in a California wildland-urban interface
Environmental Advances, 2023 Wildland-urban interface (WUI) regions are exposed to increasing wildfire risk due to the effects of accelerating climate change on fuel flammability, as well as a legacy of fire exclusion that promoted fuel accumulations in seasonally dry forests of ...
Samrajya Bikram Thapa +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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Fire, 2022 Wildfire risk assessment provides important tools to fire management, by analysing and aggregating information regarding multiple, interactive dimensions.
Rafaello Bergonse +3 more
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Forest Management in the Interface: Reducing Fire Risk
EDIS, 2023 Managing wildfire in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is challenging. Maintaining community preparedness is a crucial step in mitigating wildfire risk.
Bruce Hull +4 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 The growing threats posed by wildfires in Southern Europe are calling for the development of comprehensive and sound management and risk assessment strategies.
Michele Salis +7 more
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Income and Insurability as Factors in Wildfire Risk
, 2022 The increasing frequency of destructive wildfire incidents in the United States, particularly in the West, is well-documented, and the key causal variables are increasingly well understood.
Matthew Robert Auer +1 more
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