Fires that matter: reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment

Fires that matter: reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment

Increasing fire impacts across North America are associated with climate and vegetation change, greater exposure through development expansion, and less-well studied but salient social vulnerabilities. We are at a critical moment in the contemporary human-fire relationship, with an urgent need to tr...

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Main Authors: Virginia Iglesias, Natasha Stavros, Jennifer K Balch, Kimiko Barrett, Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, Cyrus Hester, Crystal A Kolden, Stefan Leyk, R Chelsea Nagy, Colleen E Reid, Christine Wiedinmyer, Elizabeth Woolner, William R Travis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
firescape
hazard
exposure
vulnerability
social-environmental-technological system
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0c

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0c

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