Learning to coexist with wildfire

MA Moritz, E Batllori, RA Bradstock, AM Gill, J Handmer… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions—the lives and homes lost, the expense of
suppression and the damage to ecosystem services—necessitate a more sustainable …

Community wildfire preparedness: A global state-of-the-knowledge summary of social science research

S McCaffrey - Current Forestry Reports, 2015 - Springer
This article builds on findings from a synthesis of fire social science research that was
published from 2000 to 2010 to understand what has been learned more recently about …

Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

VC Radeloff, DP Helmers, HA Kramer… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet
or intermingle, and where wildfire problems are most pronounced. Here we report that the …

Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions

A Hurlimann, S Moosavi, GR Browne - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Well-designed urban planning policy can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to
anticipated climate change impacts. However, there has been limited analysis of the extent …

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

DMJS Bowman, J Balch, P Artaxo… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire‐making species, but 'natural'(ie
independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires …

Forest fire induced Natech risk assessment: A survey of geospatial technologies

M Naderpour, HM Rizeei, N Khakzad… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Forest fires threaten a large part of the world's forests, communities, and industrial plants,
triggering technological accidents (Natechs). Forest fire modelling with respect to …

Combating land degradation and desertification: The land-use planning quandary

H Briassoulis - Land, 2019 - mdpi.com
Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect
land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of …

The role of spatial planning in adapting to climate change

AC Hurlimann, AP March - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial planning has been identified as a critical mechanism through which climate change
adaptation can be facilitated. We review the role of spatial planning as a tool for adaptation …

Wildfire exposure to the wildland urban interface in the western US

AA Ager, P Palaiologou, CR Evers, MA Day, C Ringo… - Applied geography, 2019 - Elsevier
Predicting wildfire disasters presents a major challenge to the field of risk science, especially
when fires propagate long distances through diverse fuel types and complex terrain. A good …

Land use planning and wildfire: development policies influence future probability of housing loss

AD Syphard, A Bar Massada, V Butsic, JE Keeley - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Increasing numbers of homes are being destroyed by wildfire in the wildland-urban
interface. With projections of climate change and housing growth potentially exacerbating …