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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
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Geo: Geography and EnvironmentIndigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are critical to ecosystem conservation and cultural preservation but face increasing wildfire risks exacerbated by climate change and environmental degradation.
Michel Valette +8 more
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Corporate Decarbonization via Technology and Management
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive overview of key findings on decarbonization, advanced technologies, and management strategies, highlighting emerging themes shaping the field. Advanced technologies enhance carbon reduction through efficiency, real‐time monitoring, and optimizing resource optimization.
Heidy Montero‐Teran +2 more
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Living with Fire: Relational Approach to Fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
International Journal of the CommonsChanging fire regimes amidst the planetary ecological crisis demand a rethinking of human-fire relationships. This rethinking has led to growing calls for moving away from anti-fire strategies and recognising the necessity of living with fire.
Kapil Yadav
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Future climate change impact on wildfire danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Recent studies have shown that temperature and precipitation in the Mediterranean are expected to change, contributing to longer and more intense summer droughts that even extend out of season.
Anastasios Rovithakis +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms are increasingly looking into carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a set of options to take past emissions of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Often two basic categories of CDR are distinguished: nature‐based solutions, such as planting trees or restoring wetlands, and technology‐based solutions, such as various forms of carbon capture ...
Sabrina Mili +3 more
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Some Wildfire Ignition Causes Pose More Risk of Destroying Houses than Others.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Many houses are at risk of being destroyed by wildfires. While previous studies have improved our understanding of how, when and why houses are destroyed by wildfires, little attention has been given to how these fires started.
Kathryn M Collins +2 more
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A practical prioritization strategy for vegetation‐focused restoration of anthropogenic wastelands
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Erika Stewart +2 more
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Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Credit Risk in Banking: A Global Study of Bank Governance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and environmental credit risk in the global banking sector. Using a panel dataset of 345 publicly listed banks from 75 countries over the period 2018–2022, we find that greater female representation on bank boards is significantly associated with lower environmental credit
Kenza Mouti +2 more
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Changing land tenure and livelihood pressures reshape fire use in a dynamic social-ecological system
Ecology and SocietyFire has long played a central role in African savannas, shaping landscapes and sustaining subsistence livelihoods. Fire regimes in these landscapes are changing, with marked declines in burned area observed over recent decades. Although large-scale land
Henry J. Thompson +9 more
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