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There is a growing concern that human health impacts from exposure to wildfire smoke are ignored in estimates of monetized damages from wildfires. Current research highlights the need for better data collection and analysis of these impacts. Using unique primary data, this paper…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire size, smoke effects, wildfires, health factors, pollution, southern California, fire management, smoke management, wildfire, health effects, defensive behavior method, WTP - willingness to pay, cost of illness, Station Fire

While the mortality impacts of urban air pollution have been well addressed in the literature, very little is known about the mortality impacts and associated social cost from wildfire-smoke exposure (Kochi et al., 2010; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004). In an attempt…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Economics, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire size, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, southern California, fire management, smoke management, 2003 southern California wildfires, mortality impact, social cost, air pollution, value of statistical life

While the mortality impacts of urban air pollution have been well addressed in the literature, very little is known about the mortality impacts and associated social cost from wildfire-smoke exposure (Kochi et al., 2010; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004). In an attempt…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2003 Southern California fires, air pollution, mortality impact, social cost, value of statistical life

Wildfire is among the most common forest disturbances, affecting the structure, composition, and functions of many ecosystems. The complex role that wildfire plays in shaping forests has been described in terms of vegetation responses, which are characterized as dependent on,…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire frequency, fire weather, climate change, KBDI - Keetch-Byram Drought Index, mitigation, wildfire, future fire activity

There is a growing concern that human health impacts from exposure to wildfire smoke are ignored in estimates of monetized damages from wildfires. Current research highlights the need for better data collection and analysis of these impacts. Using unique primary data, this paper…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfires, health effects, WTP - willingness to pay, cost of illness, Station Fire

We simulated public health forecast-based interventions during a wildfire smoke episode in rural North Carolina to show the potential for use of modeled smoke forecasts toward reducing the health burden and showed a significant economic benefit of reducing exposures. Daily and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, wildfires, public health, smoke forecasting, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health risk, economic impacts, mortality, asthma, interventions, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, smoke effects, air quality, health factors, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management

This paper examines the economic potential for fire management to provide offsets to carbon markets in the savannas of northern Australia. Long-term field trials in Australia's savannas have quantified greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions abatement resulting from improved fire…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, greenhouse gas emissions, fire management

[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
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Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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This paper examines the economic potential for fire management to provide offsets to carbon markets in the savannas of northern Australia. Long-term field trials in Australia's savannas have quantified greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions abatement resulting from improved fire…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, carbon market, climate change mitigation, fire management, greenhouse gas offset, Indigenous fire management