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Best practices in risk and crisis communication: Implications for natural hazards management
As societies evolve, often the most appropriate response to the hazard must also evolve. However, such shifts in appropriate response to a hazard,...
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The impacts of natural hazards on Taiwan’s tourism industry
Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan in 2009, severely damaging the Alishan National Forest Recreation Area, a famous tourist resort in Taiwan. The only...
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Disconnected policies and actors and the missing role of spatial planning throughout the risk management cycle
The present work addresses the problem of lack of coordination between policies and actors with joint competence for risk management, i.e., civil...
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Hazardous Waste
Industrial revolution has resulted in a grave problem of generation of hazardous waste in large quantities. Outdated technology, knowledge gap, weak...
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The problem of fire control on drained peatlands and its solution
Fires on drained peatlands arise as a result of lowering of the groundwater table and the rupture of its capillary fringe from the peat soil...
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The French Vigilance System. Contributing to the Reduction of Disaster Risks in France
Managing natural risks has been a major concern for France ever since the 1950s. The relevant mechanism, which initially focused on operational...
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Forest and agroecosystem fire management in Ghana
The threat of wildfires to the economic potential of forestry and agriculture is one of the persistent national and international concerns. Improving...
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Climatology of Alaskan wildfires with special emphasis on the extreme year of 2004
Wildfires are a common experience in Alaska where, on average, 3,775 km 2 burn annually. More than 90% of the area consumed occurs in Interior Alaska,...
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Climate change impacts on forest fire potential in boreal conditions in Finland
The aim of this work was to study the forest fire potential and frequency of forest fires under the projected climate change in Finland (N 60°–N...
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The remarkable occurrence of large rainfall-induced debris flows at two different locations on July 12, 2008, Southern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA
On July 12, 2008, two convective cells about 155 km apart produced a brief period of intense rainfall triggering large debris flows in the southern...
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Mesoscale Weather
Labor Day 2006 wasn't a holiday for firefighters as wildfires continued their record-breaking pace across the United States. In the twenty-four hours...
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Predicting the effect of climate change on wildfire behavior and initial attack success
This study focused on how climate change-induced effects on weather will translate into changes in wildland fire severity and outcomes in California,...
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Overview of the California climate change scenarios project
In response to an Executive Order by California Governor Schwarzenegger, an evaluation of the implications to California of possible climate changes...
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The Culture of Fire: An Introduction to Anthropogenic Fire History
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. The manipulation of fire, a species monopoly, defined...
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Managing Forest Fires: An Automatic Fire Weather Station Network in China
Following huge forest fire of May 1987, the Chinese government has paid more attention to combat forest fires using modern science and technology...
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Natural and Technological Disaster Management: Uncertainty in Technical, Sociopolitical and Scientific Issues
A certain number of natural and technological disasters in Canada and around the world are presented to illustrate the role that complexity and...
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Drought in the rain forest: Effects of the 1991 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event on a rural economy in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
In this paper, I first conduct a preliminary analysis of monthly rainfall data from West Kalimantan, Indonesia that indicates that (1) dry periods...
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Sea level change: a philosophical approach
The present Cenozoic era is an ‘icehouse’ episode characterized by a low sea level. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the human race...
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Predicting the impacts of global warming on wildland fire
Simulations of impacts of a double-CO 2 climate with the Changed Climate Fire Modeling System in Northern California consistently projected increases...
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Atmospheric effects from post-nuclear fires
During a large nuclear war, the atmosphere would be loaded with huge quantities of pollutants, which are produced by fires in urban and industrial...