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Robert E. Keane
Wildfire in declining whitebark pine forests can be a tool for ecosystem restoration or an ecologically harmful event. This document presents a set of possible wildfire management practices for facilitating the restoration of whitebark pine across its ra...
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María Vanesa Moreno and Emilio Chuvieco
Concern regarding global change has increased the need to understand the relationship between fire regime characteristics and the environment. Pyrogeographical theory suggests that fire regimes are constrained by climate, vegetation and fire ignition pro...
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Domingo M. Molina-Terrén, Adrian Cardil and Leda N. Kobziar
Wildfire presents a challenge to natural resource managers the world over, and the intentional setting of fires can be used to alleviate some of the challenges associated with wildfire management. Prescribed burning can be used prior to wildfires to redu...
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Kainan Mao, Yuehong Chen, Guohao Wu, Junwang Huang, Wanying Yang and Zelong Xia
The measurement of spatial accessibility of fire services is a key task in enhancing fire response efficiency and minimizing property losses and deaths. Recently, the two-step floating catchment area method and its modified versions have been widely appl...
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Nikolaos Ntinopoulos, Marios Spiliotopoulos, Lampros Vasiliades and Nikitas Mylopoulos
Forest fires are of critical importance in the Mediterranean region. Fire weather indices are meteorological indices that produce information about the impact as well as the characteristics of a fire event in an ecosystem and have been developed for that...
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Edward Hulida,Ivan Pasnak,Artur Renkas,Volodymyr Sharyy
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A mathematical model and methodology has been developed to determine the optimal amount of means of a fire-prevention system for protecting warehouses in enclosed spaces, on the basis of which it is possible to determine measures to improve this system, ...
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Samira Ouarmim, Laure Paradis, Hugo Asselin, Yves Bergeron, Adam A. Ali and Christelle Hély
In boreal ecosystems, wildfire severity (i.e., the extent of fire-related tree mortality) is affected by environmental conditions and fire intensity. A burned area usually includes tree patches that partially or entirely escaped fire. There are two types...
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Zhenbo Wang, Xiaorui Zhang and Bo Xu
Frequent fire accidents pose a serious threat to human life and property. The spatio-temporal features of China?s urban fires, and their drivers should be investigated. Based on the Spatio-temporal Dynamic panel data Model (SDM), and using fire data gath...
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Yuncheng Jiang, Aifeng Lv, Zhigang Yan and Zhen Yang
Rapid urban expansion has brought new challenges to firefighting, with the speed of firefighting rescue being crucial for the safety of property and life. Thus, fire prevention and rescuing people in distress have become more challenging for city manager...
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Ping Sun and Yunlin Zhang
The fire danger rating method currently used in the northern part of the Daxinganling Region with the most severe forest fires in China only uses weather variables without considering firebrands. The discrepancy between fire occurrence and fire risk by F...
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Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Frédéric Bosseur, Céline Mari and Christine Lac
The Aullene fire devastated more than 3000 ha of Mediterranean maquis and pine forest in July 2009. The simulation of combustion processes, as well as atmospheric dynamics represents a challenge for such scenarios because of the various involved scales, ...
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Joseph M. Marschall, Michael C. Stambaugh, Benjamin C. Jones, Richard P. Guyette, Patrick H. Brose and Daniel C. Dey
Many fire-adapted ecosystems in the northeastern U.S. are converting to fire-intolerant vegetation communities due to fire suppression in the 20th century. Prescribed fire and other vegetation management activities that increase resilience and resistance...
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Elsa Varela,Mario Soliño
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Aim of study: This article describes and analyzes the links between the fire-based scientific knowledge, the social perception of fire prevention and forest fires and the economic valuation requirements to assess social preferences for fire prevention me...
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Bogdan Gusar,Vasyl Kovalyshyn,Serhii Pozdieiev,Volodymyr Kovalyshyn,Oleh Zemlianskyi,Kostiantyn Myhalenko
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The article addresses the relevant issue of determining the thermotechnical characteristics of the fire-extinguishing powder for thermal insulation of the fire center of materials based on magnesium alloy chips to prevent fire development and propagation...
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Rebecca Mary Bernadette Harris, Tomas Remenyi, Paul Fox-Hughes, Peter Love and Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Changes to the frequency of fire due to management decisions and climate change have the potential to affect the flammability of vegetation, with long-term effects on the vegetation structure and composition. Frequent fire in some vegetation types can le...
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Sparkle L. Malone, Paula J. Fornwalt, Mike A. Battaglia, Marin E. Chambers, Jose M. Iniguez and Carolyn H. Sieg
We examined spatial patterns of post-fire regenerating conifers in a Colorado, USA, dry conifer forest 11?12 years following the reintroduction of mixed-severity fire. We mapped and measured all post-fire regenerating conifers, as well as all other post-...
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Antonio Vázquez,José M. Climent,Luis Casais,José R. Quintana
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Aim of study. Fire regimes are frequently dynamic and change as a function of the interactions between the three main fire drivers: fuels, ignitions and climatic conditions. We characterized the recent period (1974-2005) and performed estimates for the f...
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Mingkang Da, Teng Zhong and Jiaqi Huang
Indoor fire is a sudden and frequent disaster that severely threatens the safety of indoor people worldwide. Indoor fire emergency evacuation is crucial to reducing losses involving various objects and complex relations. However, traditional studies only...
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Raminta Ra?kauskaite and Vytautas Grigonis
Globally, fire causes considerable losses that can be alleviated by taking appropriate actions facilitated by systems supported by geo-information technologies. This research focuses upon the development of an approach for planning urban infrastructures,...
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Jessica Jong Kwang Yin, Ming Chian Yew, Ming Kun Yew and Lip Huat Saw
Intumescent flame-retardant coating (IFRC) provides a protective barrier to heat and mass transfer for the most efficient utilization of a wide variety of passive fire protection systems at the recent development. This article highlights the fire-resista...
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