Wildland Urban Interface
Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: An Examination of the Effects of Wildfire on Residential Property Markets.
... and wildland should capitalize into prices the value of forest amenities such as recreational opportunities, attractive scenery, and clean ...expanding wildland-urban interface has made ...
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A national approach for integrating wildfire simulation modeling into Wildland Urban Interface risk assessments within the United States
... risk-based Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) ...the wildland fire risk to popu- lated ...and urban community planning efforts, and more broadly wildfire management and ...
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Can air quality management drive sustainable fuels management at the temperate wildland–urban interface?
... Abstract: Sustainable fire management has eluded all industrial societies. Given the growing number and magnitude of wildfire events, prescribed fire is being increasingly promoted as the key to reducing wildfire risk. ...
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Quantifying the Threat of Unsuppressed Wildfires Reaching the Adjacent Wildland-Urban Interface on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA
... An important objective for many federal land management agencies is to restore fire to ecosystems that have experienced fire suppression or exclusion over the last century. Managing wildfires for resource objectives ...
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The Rich Go Higher: The Political Ecology of Forestry, Fire, and the Wildland-urban Interface in Northern Utah
... The rest of us continue with the chipping operation and work goes on in much the same manner until the chipper brakes down around four in the afternoon. A four-inch wide log has become lodged in the cutting mechanism. ...
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The spatial domain of wildfire risk and response in the wildland urban interface in Sydney, Australia
... the wildland urban interface (WUI): the boundary between flammable vegetation and the houses and other assets in the urban land (Safford et ...As urban populations expand, so do the ...
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Comparing Existing Fire Records with Historical Fire Regimes for Fuel Mitigation Recommendations in the Wildland Urban Interface: A 10 year Case Study of the North Carolina Sandhills
... the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) into overcrowded, fire prone forests has put a considerable burden on our nation's fire management infrastructure by significantly increasing costs and decreasing ...
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If It Burns, Will It Flow? and About the Managers Who Would Like to Know: Predicting Post-Fire Debris Flows in the Rangeland Foothills of Boise, Idaho & Investigating the Use of Wildfire Science by Decision Makers at the Wildland Urban Interface
... This study found that, using USGS post-fire debris flow models, the average modeled sediment yield for forested basins are predicted to be ~1.4x higher for than rangeland basins under low and high intensity rainfall ...
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Nebraska Wildland Fire Academy
... This is a skill course designed to produce student proficiency in the performance of the duties associated with engine boss (ENGB). Topics include: engine and crew capabilities and limitations, information sources, fire ...
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Global assessment of rural–urban interface in Portugal related to land cover changes
... (including urban areas) and agricultural ar- eas to forest and semi-natural areas ...territory. Urban sprawl was concentrated in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, as well as in the central north ...
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Wildfire risk associated with different vegetation types within and outside wildland-urban interfaces
... 51 Keywords: wildfire risk, forest fires, human-related causes, land uses, Spain, WUI 52 53 Abbreviations 54 WUI: Wildland-urban interface 55 LULC: land cover/land use 56 Agr: Agricultur[r] ...
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Institutional structures and processes for environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface
... of urban land or to prevent urban rainwater runoff and sewage from contaminating irrigation ...water. Urban neighbourhoods can do little to preserve and protect adjoining fields and countryside as ...
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A High Resolution Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Forecasting System to Minimize the Impacts of Wildland Fires: Applications to the Chimney Tops II Wildland Event
... Figure 1. Left) Elevation around the Chimeney Tops II fire (shaded), region covered by the second domain in the simultaions (dashed lines), and final fire perimeter (purple line). The urban areas are highlighted ...
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Global flows, local conflicts and the challenge of urban governance: Managing the urban-airport interface in London and the South East of England
... ‘governable’ urban region. Meanwhile, the formal governance of the functional urban region is unevenly divided along jurisdictional boundaries, where various pro- or anti-growth fragments of this ...
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Environmental problems and opportunities of the peri-urban interface and their impact upon the poor
... of urban bioregions, tends to aggravate unsustainable patterns of natural resources use and the transference of environmental problems to distant ...peri-urban interface are necessarily shaped by ...
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Developing a Sustainable Community Health Framework for Divergent Urban Landscapes – Probing the Public Health/Urban Planning Interface
... The MCI was initially known as the “10-year Magic City Children’s Zone,”created in 2008 by Florida Legislative act. It was renamed in 2009 as the MCI, and has retained its focus on engendering a community-based ...
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Efficiently modelling urban heat storage: an interface conduction scheme in an urban land surface model (aTEB v2.0)
... Figure 7. A Taylor diagram of energy fluxes for each simulation with interface scheme (filled markers) and half-layer scheme (unfilled markers) connected by a line. Change toward a normalised standard deviation of ...
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Trending #hijabfashion: Using Big Data to Study Religion at the Online–Urban Interface
... While big data analysis can be applied to a range of themes, we are specifically interested in geographies of circulation. We understand geography in a broad sense to encompass spaces both online and offline, physical as ...
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Evaluating the Comfort Properties of Wildland Firefighting Protective Clothing.
... 127 In all cases, the t-shirt retained most of the sweat. The t-shirt is the closest layer to the skin and controls the microclimate for sweat to evaporation from the skin. As shown in figure 71, at completion of the ...
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Agricultural Economic Development at the Rural-Urban Interface: Community Organization, Policy, and Agricultural Change
... large, urban markets; but there are challenges as well, such as having to contend with large nonfarm populations and development (Sharp & Smith, 2004; Berry, ...
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