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Padamsey, Wallace, Liebenberg, Cross, Oosthuizen
Background: In Western Australia, the issue of bushfires (wildfires) poses a persistent health risk to both volunteer and career forestry firefighters, populations that have been historically understudied.
Aims: This descriptive qualitative study…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Vigna, Battisti, Ascoli, Besana, Pezzoli, Comino
The impact of natural disturbances such as wildfires on ecosystem services and local communities is significant. Conventional assessments of wildfire risks often overlook the potential loss of ecosystem services, particularly cultural ones (CES).…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Clarke, Cirulis, Borchers-Arriagada, Storey, Ooi, Haynes, Bradstock, Price, Penman
Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Colenbaugh, Hagan
Anthropogenic fire is generally accepted by contemporary foresters as shaping historical landscapes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the ancestral lands of the Cherokee people. However, the consensus on historical Cherokee cultural burning…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Hoffman, Moody, Bovbjerg, Callis, Snauer
Background: Medical services for wildland fire incidents are vital and fire personnel need to be comfortable seeking care and have adequate access to care.
Aims: The aim of this study was to examine wildland firefighters’ (WLFFs) attitudes towards,…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Wood, Varner
[from the text] For millennia, Indigenous communities managed forests in the American West with fire to produce a range of environmental and cultural benefits. This long history of cultural burning combined with frequent lightning produced fire-…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Donato, Halofsky, Churchill, Haugo, Cansler, Smith, Harvey
Wildfires and fire seasons are commonly rated largely on the simple metric of area burned (more hectares: bad). A seemingly paradoxical narrative frames large fire seasons as a symptom of a forest health problem (too much fire), while simultaneously…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
de Diego, Fernández, Rúa, Kline
Background: The Spanish region of Galicia is one of the most fire-prone areas in Europe. Most wildfires are directly or indirectly related to human activities, suggesting that socioeconomic factors likely can inform wildfire management.…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Johnston, Schmidt, Merschel, Downing, Coughlan, Lewis
Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we describe one of the first annually resolved reconstructions of historical (1500-1900 ce) fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Constantine, Williams, Francke, Cadd, Forbes, Cohen, Zhu, Mooney
Ethnographic observations suggest that Indigenous peoples employed a distinct regime of frequent, low-intensity fires in the Australian landscape in the past. However, the timing of this behaviour and its ecological impact remain uncertain. Here, we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023