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

Iglesias, Virginia; Stavros, Natasha; Balch, Jennifer K; Barrett, Kimiko; Cobian-Iñiguez, Jeanette; Hester, Cyrus; Kolden, Crystal A; Leyk, Stefan; Nagy, R Chelsea; Reid, Colleen E; Wiedinmyer, Christine; Woolner, Elizabeth; Travis, William R

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

2022
By Iglesias, Virginia ; Stavros, Natasha ; Balch, Jennifer K ; ...

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Environmental Research Letters
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Iglesias, Virginia ; Stavros, Natasha ; Balch, Jennifer K ; Barrett, Kimiko ; Cobian-Iñiguez, Jeanette ; Hester, Cyrus ; Kolden, Crystal A ; Leyk, Stefan ; Nagy, R Chelsea ; Reid, Colleen E ; Wiedinmyer, Christine ; Woolner, Elizabeth ; Travis, William R
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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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 transition from emergency response to proactive measures that build sustainable communities, protect human health, and restore the use of fire necessary for maintaining ecosystem processes. We propose an integrated risk factor that includes fire and smoke hazard, exposure, and vulnerability as a method to identify ‘fires that matter’, that is, fires that have potentially devastating impacts on our communities. This approach enables pathways to delineate and prioritise science-informed planning strategies most likely to increase community resilience to fires.
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General Environmental Science Public Health, Environmental And Occupational Health Renewable Energy, Sustainability And The Environment Public Health, Environmental And Occupational Health Renewable Energy, Sustainability And The Environment Public Health, Environmental And Occupational Health Renewable Energy, Sustainability And The Environment
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Environmental Research Letters, 17(4), 045014
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0c
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1748-9326
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IOP Publishing
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