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Hattenbach
A special session by the Fuels Community of Practice.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Bayham, Yoder, Champ, Calkin
Wildfire is a natural phenomenon with substantial economic consequences, and its management is complex, dynamic, and rife with incentive problems. This article reviews the contribution of economics to our understanding of wildfire and highlights…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
O'Connor, Haas, Gannon, Dunn, Thompson, Calkin
Wildfire management has long been driven by a cadre of experienced professionals that rely heavily on their personal experience and judgement to determine the best available holding features to contain actively growing wildfires. In the western…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Haas, Prentice, Harrison
Fire is an important influence on the global patterns of vegetation structure and composition. Wildfire is included as a distinct process in many dynamic global vegetation models but limited current understanding of fire regimes restricts these…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Williams, Livneh, McKinnon, Hansen, Mankin, Cook, Smerdon, Varuolo-Clarke, Bjarke, Juang, Lettenmaier
Streamflow often increases after fire, but the persistence of this effect and its importance to present and future regional water resources are unclear. This paper addresses these knowledge gaps for the western United States (WUS), where annual…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Rabung, Toman
Despite a reputation for destruction, militaries across the world may maintain important biological natural resources that are key to achieving global biodiversity conservation goals. On lands used by militaries for soldier training, numerous rare…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Themes and patterns in print media coverage of wildfires in the USA, Canada and Australia: 1986-2016
Sachdeva, McCaffreyBackground: Media wildfire coverage can shape public knowledge on fire-related issues, and potentially influence management decisions, so understanding the content of its coverage is important. Previous research examining media wildfire coverage has…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Clark, Nkonya, Galford
As global climate change progresses, the United States (US) is expected to experience warmer temperatures as well as more frequent and severe extreme weather events, including heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires. Each year, these events cost…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Aminpour, Helgeson, Ferraro
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To reduce the negative health effects from wildfire smoke exposure, effective risk and health communication strategies are vital. We estimated the behavioral effects from changes in message framing and messenger in public health messages…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document