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Whalen
“Any safety system depends crucially on the willing participation of the workforce, the people in direct contact with the hazards. To achieve this, it is necessary to engineer a reporting culture – an organizational climate in which people are…
Type: Media
Year: 2016
Skowronski, Simeoni, Clark, Kremens, Mell, Gallagher, Mueller, Thomas, Hom
Over the past ten years, ≈ $5.6 billion has been spent on hazardous fuel reduction to treat an average of ≈ 1 million ha yr-1 across the United States (Gorte 2011, NIFC 2011). These expenditures represent one of our nation’s primary strategies for…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Towne, Craine
Frequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production, it has become a controversial societal issue…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Bixler, Bixler, Ellison, Moseley
Changes in land use and management practices throughout the past century-in addition to drought and other stressors exacerbated by climate change-have degraded the nation’s forests and led to overgrowth and accumulation of hazardous fuels (GAO 2015…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Vigneaux
The U.S. federal wildland fire management system continues to experience rises in the number of acres burned annually and increases in management expenditures surrounded by firefighter death and injury. Despite a wealth of relevant academic research…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Loehman, Butler, Civitello, Constan, Dyer, Evans, Friggens, Kneifel, Reardon, Scheintaub, Steffen
Cultural resources are physical features, both natural and anthropogenic, associated with human activity. These unique and non-renewable resources include sites, structures, and objects possessing significance in history, architecture, archaeology,…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Mallinis, Mitsopoulos, Beltran, Goldammer
Fire management implications and the design of conservation strategies on fire prone landscapes within the UNESCO World Heritage Properties require the application of wildfire risk assessment at landscape level. The objective of this study was to…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Pyne
The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts after watering by El Niño cloudbursts and the thick…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Norton-Smith, Lynn, Chief, Cozzetto, Donatuto, Hiza Redsteer, Kruger, Maldonado, Viles, Whyte
A growing body of literature examines the vulnerability, risk, resilience, and adaptation of indigenous peoples to climate change. This synthesis of literature brings together research pertaining to the impacts of climate change on sovereignty,…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Chisholm, Trauer, Curnoe, Tanaka
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), a wildly successful group of organisms and the leading cause of death resulting from a single bacterial pathogen worldwide. It is generally accepted that MTBC established…
Type: Document
Year: 2016