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Wildfire Risk Management for Informal Settlements in Chile
This thesis explores the critical intersection of wildfire risk and informal settlement development in Chile, focusing on the municipality of Viña del Mar. This city experienced the deadliest wildfires in the nation’s history in 2024 and holds the nation’s highest concentration of informal …
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Wildfire risk: a participatory approach in an alpine socio-ecological system
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Wildfire Risk Assessment Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Modis Climate Data
<p>Wildfires burn millions of acres of land each year leading to the destruction of homes and wildland ecosystems while costing governments billions in funding. As climate change intensifies drought volatility across the Western United States, wildfires are likely to become increasingly severe. …
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Mapping the landscape of wildfire risk mitigation: understanding the links between equity, community assets, capacities, and collaboration
Wildfire is a natural process that has shaped landscapes for millennia, but its exclusion since Euro-American settlement has had negative effects on forest health and composition, increasing the risk of large, high-severity wildfires. Many communities are grappling with this increased risk, as more …
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SCALE AND SOURCE OF GEOSPATIAL DATA FOR WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENTS: COMPARING NATIONAL DATA WITH LOCAL DATA IN THE DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST
… in environmental decision-making tools such as wildfire risk models has called attention to questions of availability, quality, and currency of input data layers. As wildfires are modeled with growing confidence and knowledge of how resources respond to fire is increasing, challenges must be …
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SCALE AND SOURCE OF GEOSPATIAL DATA FOR WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENTS: COMPARING NATIONAL DATA WITH LOCAL DATA IN THE DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST
… in environmental decision-making tools such as wildfire risk models has called attention to questions of availability, quality, and currency of input data layers. As wildfires are modeled with growing confidence and knowledge of how resources respond to fire is increasing, challenges must be …
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Prescribed Fire in a Florida Landscape with Mixed Ownership: Spatial Interactions
Across the U.S., wildfires have become increasingly destructive and costly over the past few decades, with impacts particularly severe in the State of Florida. Because of an increase in wildfire frequency and severity and the number of people living in fire-prone areas the issue of wildfire risk …
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Wildfire and development : why stronger links to land-use planning are needed to save lives, protect property, and minimize economic risk
… mix. This area, known as the WUI, is at high risk of wildfires. Wildfire risk is based on both natural conditions, such as invasive species and climate change, and human development decisions that allow continued growth in fire-prone areas. This thesis examines the approaches to wildfire risk …
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How spatial planning can enable pathways toward wildfire mitigation within the fire-prone wildland and urban interface, City of Cape Town
18th of April 2021, a wildfire raged through parts of the University of Cape Towns upper campus, with damage assessed at approximately R500 million. There were calls from senior leadership that UCT "will rebuild facilities". The post-disaster rhetoric of rebuilding is problematic, as we should …
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Remote sensing to characterise vegetation fuel moisture content in the UK uplands
Wildfires are an important hazard globally as they lead to significant land degradation, carbon losses and impact on human activities. Recent research has demonstrated how dynamic fire risk estimates can be informed by the use of remote sensing technology. The focus here is on improving methods for …
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Homeowners' Responses to Wildfire Risks and Hazards in Sothwestern Montana
… of individuals living in these areas to wildfire maybe partially determined by their cognitive and emotional attachments to the landscape. Many of the study participants appeared to have a sufficient understanding of wildfire hazards, possible mitigation actions, and adequate resources to …
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Homeowners' Responses to Wildfire Risks and Hazards in Sothwestern Montana
… of individuals living in these areas to wildfire maybe partially determined by their cognitive and emotional attachments to the landscape. Many of the study participants appeared to have a sufficient understanding of wildfire hazards, possible mitigation actions, and adequate resources to …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods from wildfire. In addition to fire suppression duties, the Forest Service has attempted to mitigate the wildfire risk posed to the WUI through prescribed burning and other types of fuels reduction projects. But rising suppression costs and diminishing …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods from wildfire. In addition to fire suppression duties, the Forest Service has attempted to mitigate the wildfire risk posed to the WUI through prescribed burning and other types of fuels reduction projects. But rising suppression costs and diminishing …
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Planning with Fire: Exploring the Barriers & Opportunities Surrounding Wildfire Fuel Reduction at the Wildland Urban Interface
… climate change and rapidly shifting wildfire regimes heightening wildfire risk across the Pacific Northwest, our research explores fuel reduction as a holistic wildfire mitigation strategy. Using the Methow Valley in Washington State as a case study, we examine the barriers and …
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Improving Tree Crown Mapping using Airborne LiDAR with Genetic Algorithms
… carbon inventories; fuel estimations for wildfire risk assessment and management. These mapping efforts use individual tree crown (ITC) recognition algorithms applied to LiDAR point clouds, which have complex parameter sets. Genetic algorithms (GA) have been demonstrated to be excellent …
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Quantification of Influential Surface Fuel Parameters in Fire-Prone Ecosystems of the Netherlands
… in northwest Europe present an increasing wildfire risk in the Netherlands. Focus on fuels monitoring in this region is not as extensive as it is in the United States. Accurate estimation of biomass fuel loading is integral to prevention of wildfires which pose a significant risk to both …
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Spatiotemporal Distribution of Siberian Wildfires and Impacts from Meteorological and Climatic Factors
Wildfire is a major disturbance affecting carbon cycling, land–atmosphere energy exchange, and ecological security in high-latitude ecosystems. Siberia is one of the most fire-prone regions in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and the spatiotemporal variability of its wildfire activity …
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