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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"fire management"”.
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Operating room fire management simulation and instructional video
… psychometric, critical thinking, and crisis management skills among pilots. This approach to safety quickly expanded to other high-risk industries, including health care (Imbriaco, 2021). The use of high-fidelity simulation (HFS) within a curriculum provides students an opportunity to …
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A system dynamics based analysis of "rank and fire" management policy
… Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
The wildland fire environment in the U.S. is becoming increasingly complex due to a century of fire suppression policies, development in wildland-urban interface areas, and an expected increase in fire activity due to climate change. As more attention is focused on wildfire management, the role of …
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Forest fire management in Portugal : developing system insights through models of social and physical dynamics
Managing forest fires is a serious national problem in Portugal. Burned area has increased steadily over the past several decades, with particularly devastating years in 2003 and 2005. Ignitions also spike dramatically in summer, which greatly strains firefighting resources and leads to fires that …
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LONG-TERM OVERSTORY VEGETATION RESPONSES TO PRESCRIBED FIRE MANAGEMENT FOR LONGLEAF PINE AT BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE
… Park Service continued monitoring the study’s fire ecology research plots. After two decades of data collection, ordination was applied to species abundance data to examine changes in vegetation communities from a variety of prescribed fire treatments and controls. The vegetation data was …
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An Assessment of the Viability of LandScan Data to Estimate Structure Location in Wildland Fire Management and Planning
Research indicates firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are highly correlated with the number of homes threatened by wildfire. Therefore, knowing the location of structures is paramount for planners and fire managers attempting to reduce the threats posed to structures by …
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An Assessment of the Viability of LandScan Data to Estimate Structure Location in Wildland Fire Management and Planning
Research indicates firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are highly correlated with the number of homes threatened by wildfire. Therefore, knowing the location of structures is paramount for planners and fire managers attempting to reduce the threats posed to structures by …
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Upland Migration of Coastal Marshes as a Response to Sea Level Rise and Fire Management: Past, Present, and Predicted
… Using Bayesian multi-level models, I found that fire management likely helps facilitate landward migration of coastal marshes by increasing productivity of salt marsh and understory vegetation in ecotone and upland forests as well as decreasing tree height growth through increased salinity …
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Using Place Attachment to Determine the Acceptability of Restoring Fire to Its Natural Role in Wilderness Ecosystems
… to explore the social dimensions of wilderness fire management. I set out to answer the question what role does an individual’s attachment to place play in determining the acceptability of management actions directed towards fire? I feel that problems will arise if management agencies attempt to …
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Using Place Attachment to Determine the Acceptability of Restoring Fire to Its Natural Role in Wilderness Ecosystems
… to explore the social dimensions of wilderness fire management. I set out to answer the question what role does an individual’s attachment to place play in determining the acceptability of management actions directed towards fire? I feel that problems will arise if management agencies attempt to …
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The role of humans, climate and vegetation in the complex fire regimes of north-east Namibia
… and socio-historical factors influenced fire management dynamics in north-east Namibia. Fires are mostly human ignited, but precipitation patterns influence when and where fires can occur, and there are feedbacks between fire, climate and vegetation cover. Yet, knowledge of historical and …
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Monitoring changes in plant community composition and landscape structure as a result of prescribed burning at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge
… (Big Oaks NWR) to help understand the effects of fire management on critical wildlife habitat. The objectives of this study were to produce a baseline description of plant community structure and composition and to describe the landscape-level impacts of fire management within the refuge. These …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
Annual fire management and suppression expenditures by the USDA Forest Service have dramatically increased in recent years, and exceeded $1 billion in the fire seasons of 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. These escalating management costs can largely be attributed to the Forest …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
Annual fire management and suppression expenditures by the USDA Forest Service have dramatically increased in recent years, and exceeded $1 billion in the fire seasons of 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. These escalating management costs can largely be attributed to the Forest …
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Learning to Burn, Burning to Learn: Transforming Professionals and Organizations through the US Fire Learning Network
Since the 1970s, the institution of fire management has been in a frustrated transition from fire suppression and control to ecologically informed fire management. Administrative boundaries, professional specializations and organizational incentives and funding mechanisms have stalled the adoption …
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How has woody vegetation changed in north-east Namibia in response to land use, climate and fire?
… promotion of tourism and the prevention of wildfires. Hence, effective monitoring of woody vegetation and the factors which influence its spread are essential. This is particularly the case for protected areas such as that of Bwabwata National Park (BNP) in north-east Namibia. With a complex …
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Fuel characterization using remote sensing in support of large-scale wildfire management in the Cerrado biome
… been threatened by anthropogenic changes in the fire regime. Managing fuels is one of the most important options we have for reducing wildfire’s negative impacts on society and the environment and amplifying positive ones on fire-dependent flora. Large areas such as Cerrado often require remote …
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Wildfires in the Cape floristic region : exploring vegetation and weather as drivers of fire frequency
… the spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires in the Cape Floristic Region (CFR). It focused on the factors that influence fire frequency; namely vegetation age, ignition sources and weather conditions. This work was done to aid decisions on fire management in fynbos nature reserves. Fire …
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Prescribed fire and deer ticks: a management method for the primary vector of Lyme disease in the eastern United States
… that may have released it from historic limits. Fire suppression policy and its adverse ecological effects may be the primary cause and implementation of prescribed fire management may be the best solution for reducing tick densities, changing habitat characteristics to less suitable conditions, …
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