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Bremer, Mandle, Trauernicht, Pascua, McMillen, Burnett, Wada, Kurashima, Quazi, Giambelluca, Chock, Ticktin
As ecosystem service assessments increasingly contribute to decisions about managing Earth’s lands and waters, there is a growing need to understand the diverse ways that people use and value landscapes. However, these assessments rarely incorporate…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
In this report, the Commission calls for transformational culture change in its forest management practices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in December 2017 that approximately 27 million trees had died statewide on federal, state…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
Thompson, Haigh, Smith
During disasters, the presence of companion animals is an identified risk for household relocation failure as well as premature return. In Australia, where bushfires are a regular summer threat, householders are encouraged to develop a written…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
Lewis, Christianson, Spinks
Land and fire managers alike are increasingly moving beyond policies that often favored suppression for policies that allow, and may even initiate, small- to medium-scale, variable-intensity fires as a course of better forest and land management and…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
This collection of essays-divided into three key categories: Risk, Culture, and Operations-daylights qualities and practices in the wildland fire service across a broad spectrum, from outdated and unwarranted to honorable and profound. We must…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
Seijo, Céspedes, Zavala
Chestnut forest ecosystems have a complex fire ecology; a result of centuries of co-evolution with pre-industrial era, cultural fire use by local communities based on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). As the 'forest transition' unfolds…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
Krosby
Are you concerned about what climate change might mean for your tribe? The Climate Impacts Group, in partnership with the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC), hosted a webinar to introduce a new suite of Tribal Vulnerability…
Type: Media
Year: 2018
Palaiologou, Ager, Nielsen-Pincus, Evers, Kalabokidis
Numerous catastrophic wildfires in Greece have demonstrated that relying on fire suppression as the primary risk-management strategy is inadequate and that existing wildfire-risk governance needs to be re-examined. In this research, we used…
Type: Document
Year: 2018
Jacobs, Cramer
Resilient communities promote trust, have well-developed networks, and can adapt to change. For rural communities in fire-prone landscapes, current resilience strategies may prove insufficient in light of increasing wildfire risks due to climate…
Type: Document
Year: 2017
Steen-Adams, Charnley, Adams
We examine the influence of wildfire institutions on management and forest resilience over time, drawing on research from a multiownership, frequent-fire, coupled human and natural system (CHANS) in the eastern Cascades of Oregon, USA. We…
Type: Document
Year: 2017