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The idea sprouted, and Efseaff and other members of the community now hope to build a ribbon of public parkland devoid of homes that would encircle and protect Paradise, its land managed to reduce the risk of fire. Known as a "wildfire-risk reduction buffer", this landscape would be managed so the trees are far apart, with less brush in the under…
The preparation of this Local Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-2013 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.The progress report mainly assesses the trans-boundary issues and the status and progress in the implementation of disast…
By Kelly Pohl
For communities land use planning is more effective than logging on federal lands to reduce future wildfire disasters
The President issued an executive order last month that instructs federal land managers to treat 8.45 million acres of land and cut 4.4 billion board feet of timber. But land use planning, not logging on feder…
By Molly Callahan
Firefighters, legislators, and residents on the East Coast should watch carefully the way their California counterparts are dealing with wildfires tearing through the state. The combined forces that brought about the blaze are growing more and more present in the Northeast, said Stephen Flynn, founding director of Northeaste…
By Marccus D. Hendricks and William Mobley
The recent Camp fire in California has been declared the deadliest in the state’s history. The devastation is yet another example of the collision of climate-related risks and the human-built environment. Climate change isn’t the singular cause of the Camp, Hill and Woosley fires; however, it has amplified e…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
Location
Vienna
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In German:
Der menschliche Lebensraum ist in vielen Bereichen von Naturgefahren betroffen. Veränderte Lebensansprüche erhöhen den Nutzungsdruck im alpinen Raum und führen zu einer Verknappung des vor Naturgefahren geschützten Lebensraums. Auch die Wirtschaftsentwicklung sowie die Landwirtschaft sind von der Verfügbarkeit…
By Eric B. Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
In the early morning hours of Nov. 8, 2018, thousands of Californians fled their homes as flames from the Camp Fire advanced on the town of Paradise.
Their attempts to flee were captured in dramatic stories, harrowing narratives…
By Stephen Starr
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With suburban communities and the wilderness increasingly entwined as San Diego’s population expands ever deeper into the eastern hills, efforts to counter the fire threat have fuelled much experimentation and investigation.
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“Integrating private-land conservation decision-making with wildfire risk reduction is potentiall…
Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable, de Transports et du Logement - communiqué de presse
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement, a présenté aujourd’hui, en présence de Jean JOUZEL, Vice-Président du Groupe d’Experts Intergouvernemental sur l’Evolution du Climat (GIEC), l…
Earth's rapidly changing climate is taking an increasingly heavy toll on landscapes around the world in the form of floods, rising sea levels, extreme weather, drought and wildfire.Also at growing risk are the values of property where these hazards are projected to worsen, according to a new study by University of Utah scholars.The research team, led by…
The spread and intensity of the wildfires raging in California call for a far higher level of fire prevention, containment and disaster management than the state has had previously. Property owners and developers, fire departments, utilities and other entities need to strengthen collaboration, and revisit building codes and insurance industry practices,…
By Francie Diep
Pacific Standard spoke with three California residents, all of whom have interesting, well-supported, yet often little-known ideas for wildfire prevention strategies that go a bit deeper than tree removal. It remains to be seen whether their proposed policies are politically and financially feasible, but, in the meantime, the ideas rev…
By Chris Folkman
Describing the scale and savagery of the wildfires currently burning in California is difficult to do, but a simple recounting of the statistics is a good starting point. They are thus:
At the time of writing, fifteen wildfires are now burning more than 280,000 acres (~113,000 hectares) in California. Collectively, they have laid wast…
By Chris Folkman
At the time of writing, the recent Camp and Woolsey fires in California have burned a combined total of 245,000 acres (93,000 hectares) — an area about the size of Dallas. These fires have destroyed more than 12,000 homes and businesses, and killed 80 civilians. Ordinarily these would be called extreme events. But these are not ordinar…