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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
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
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
Wolters
As a result of climate change and past management practices, wildfires are becoming larger and occurring more frequently than ever before in the Western U.S. In order to mitigate the effects of this growing threat, fire management agencies such as…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Sjöström, Granström
Organization of successful wildfire prevention and suppression require detailed information on ignition causes, size distributions and relations to weather. From a large and highly detailed dataset of Swedish wildfire incidents (n = 124 000) we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Davis, Wilmsen, Machado, Alessi
Latino/a/x workers perform labor-intensive forestry and fire stewardship work in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, but are not well recognized in research and practice about wildfire governance. This industry has pervasive issues of unsafe working…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Atkinson, Montiel-Molina
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the transition towards a new paradigm of wildfire risk management in Victoria that incorporates Aboriginal fire knowledge. We show the suitability of cultural burning in the transformed landscapes…
Type: Document
Year: 2023