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Long, Lake, Goode
Indigenous communities in the Pacific West of North America have long depended on fire to steward their environments, and they are increasingly asserting the importance of cultural burning to achieve goals for ecological and social restoration. We…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Ravazzi, Mariani, Criado, Garozzo, Naranjo-Cigala, Perez-Torrado, Pini, Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Nogué, Whittaker, Fernández-Palacios, de Nascimento
Aim
Long‐term ecological data provide a stepped frame of island ecosystem transformation after successive waves of human colonization, essential to determine conservation and management baselines. However, the timing and ecological impact of initial…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Finney
Recent wildland fire disasters have attracted interest from a variety of disciplines seeking to reduce impacts of fire on people and natural resources. Architecture, insurance and reinsurance, city and county government, and engineering sectors have…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Eriksen
On 26 April 1986, the explosion and subsequent open-air graphite fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere alike with radioactive material. The 30-km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one…
Type: Media
Year: 2021
Carroll, Edgeley, Nugent
Fire use is increasingly recognised as a central component of integrated land management in fire-prone places. Historically, fire use has been commonplace in many places in Ireland, where field burning is an established practice with a long pedigree…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Edwards, Archer, De Bruyn, Evans, Lewis, Vigilante, Whyte, Russell-Smith
Savannas are the most fire-prone of Earth's biomes and currently account for most global burned area and associated carbon emissions. In Australia, over recent decades substantial development of savanna burning emissions accounting methods has been…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Larson, Kipfmueller, Johnson
Humans have modified the landscape and fire regimes of the Great Lakes region since Paleo-Indians migrated to the area c. 14,000 years ago. Europeans arrived c. 400 years ago and began utilizing existing Indigenous trade networks soon after. Land…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Figueiredo, Paupério, Romão
In a changing world where the frequency of natural hazards is increasing, the consequences of disasters on cultural heritage assets are still not well understood. This can be attributed to shortcomings in existing risk management practices and to…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Levin, Yebra, Phinn
The summer season of 2019-2020 has been named Australia’s Black Summer because of the large forest fires that burnt for months in southeast Australia, affecting millions of Australia's citizens and hundreds of millions of animals and capturing…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Cowan, Rau, Adlam
Oregon is a land of fire. From coastal prairies to ancient conifer forests and Mediterranean oak woodlands to the sagebrush steppe, Oregon has long been shaped by fire. Animals and plants have found ways to adapt, and many even benefit from fire,…
Type: Media
Year: 2021