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Nikolakis, Welham, Greene
Savanna burning programs across northern Australia generate millions of dollars per year for Indigenous communities through carbon and other greenhouse gas (GHG) markets. In catalyzing Indigenous knowledge and workforce to mitigate destructive…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Mariani, Connor, Theuerkauf, Herbert, Kuneš, Bowman, Fletcher, Head, Kershaw, Haberle, Stevenson, Adeleye, Cadd, Hopf, Briles
Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad-scale questions about how the cessation of Indigenous burning practices has impacted fuel accumulation and structure. For sustainable coexistence with fire, a better…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Adeleye, Haberle, Ondei, Bowman
Ongoing European suppression of Aboriginal cultural land management since early-nineteenth century colonisation is widely thought to have caused major transformations across all Australian landscapes, including vegetation thickening, severe fires…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Leduc, Giga, Fletcher, Young, Dorman
Critical to effective fire management is the protection and preparedness of highly trained wildland firefighters who routinely face extreme physical and psychological demands. To date, there is limited scientific evidence of psychosocial education…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Yamamoto, Wang, Irino, Yamada, Haraguchi, Nakamura, Gotanda, Yonenobu, Leipe, Chen, Tarasov
Rebun is a small island located northwest of Hokkaido Island where hunter-fisher-gatherer cultural traditions continued until the 19th century CE. In this study, we quantified polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pentacyclic triterpene methyl…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Mallinis, Chrysafis, Damianidis, Giannakopoulos, Mitsopoulos, Akratos, Bezirtzoglou, Chalioris, Chouvardas, Iliadis, Maris, Margaris, Paschalidou, Protopapas, Klimis, Dokas
The Risk and Resilience Assessment Center (RiskAC) research project is a joint effort of more than 80 researchers from Departments of the Democritus University of Thrace, the Aristotle University and from the Institute of Engineering Seismology and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
O'Gorman, Bentley, McKay, Purser, Everly
California black oak, Quercus kelloggii, plays an important role in the lifeways of many Indigenous tribes throughout California. Native peoples tend black oaks using traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to encourage the development and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Vaiciulyte, Hulse, Galea, Veeraswamy
For Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) residents, wildfire is a constant, growing risk. A timely response to wildfire is vital for human survival. Yet, upon receiving fire cues, previous studies show that instead of taking protective action, people…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Stasiewicz, Paveglio
Increased wildfire activity has led to renewed interest in enhancing local capacity to reduce wildfire risk in residential areas. Local fire departments (LFDs) are often the first responders to rural wildfires. However, LFDs may also struggle to…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Manton, Ruffner, Kibirkštis, Brazaitis, Marozas, Pukienė, Makrickiene, Angelstam
Fire is an important natural disturbance and a driver of hemi-boreal forest successional trajectories, structural complexity, and biodiversity. Understanding the historic fire regime is an important step towards sustainable forest management.…
Type: Document
Year: 2022