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Displaying 15 of about 489 resultsThis Special Report, connected with the MCR2030 “Flames of Chance: Innovating Heat and Wildfire Governance for Inclusive Communities” report, strives to focus attention on the following aspects: (a) understanding the issue in relation to ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities; (b) understanding the factors and obstacles that determine the magn…
[...]As parts of Nepal recover from their toughest wildfire season to-date - fuelled by rising heat and drought linked to climate change - firefighters and officials fear that the tools and tactics they use to combat forest fires may no longer suffice.[...]The office has built about 50 ponds across the area, but most had no water this season due to less…
Scientists are predicting longer-burning wildfires in future decades. As Greece and Italy hit new records, does Europe need a new fire prevention strategy?Wildfires across the European Union have laid waste to approximately 260,000 hectares of land so far this year, damaging infrastructure, prompting evacuations, and displacing thousands of people.[...]…
BEIRUT/GENEVA, 21 October 2011 – UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlstrom, today welcomed the news that both the Lebanese Army and the National Institute of Administration, the country’s civil service, are to make disaster risk reduction a core element of staff training.
She said: “This is a welcome signal from the new government of the importance it attaches…
Chile, known for its diverse landscapes and cultural diversity, hides a less-explored narrative that intertwines disasters, post-colonial legacies, and capitalist influences. In this blog post, I aim to take a closer look at these connections –without claiming to offer a groundbreaking analysis. Instead, the goal is to shed light on the complex interpla…
Two years after devastating wildfires razed 90 per cent of Lytton, B.C., reconstruction is slow and residents remain displaced and angry about it.This summer, 65 per cent of the Northwest Territories’ 46,000 residents evacuated, including almost the entire population of Yellowknife, due to a wildfire.The year 2023, in fact, marked Canada’s worst-ever wi…
The Lebanon Forest Note articulates opportunities for supporting the protection and sustainable management of Lebanon’s forest landscapes. It considers the increasing pressure on natural resources due to anthropogenic activities/stresses, as well as their increased vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, especially forest fires. The Note…
California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the USDA Forest Service, along with support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, has developed Planscape – a new wildfire resilience planning tool that uses state and federal resilience data to create user-friendly models that will be easily accessible to land planners. A d…
In the fall of 1922, the city of Toronto sent 85 surplus streetcars to Haileybury and other northern Ontario towns to help house thousands of desperate people who had lost their homes to wildfires.
Known as the Great Fire, it burned nearly 1,700 square kilometres of the area — including the town of Haileybury. It killed 43 people and caused m…
Study finds lower-income homeowners are at higher risk of wildfire, canceled homeowners insurance.
With fires raging from California to Alaska, the 2022 wildfire season is off to a violent start. It’s an ominous sign of what promises to be another record-breaking fire season in the U.S.
Roughly 2 million acres burned last month. And major fires are cu…
This Commission staff working document is the second edition of an overview of the natural and man-made disaster risks that the European Union (EU) may face, prepared under EU legislation on civil protection. The aim of the overview is to capture the trends in the ever-evolving disaster risk landscape, discuss the major drivers shaping it, take a closer…
Californians have been concerned about wildfires for a long time, but the past two years have left many of them fearful and questioning whether any solutions to the fire crisis truly exist.
The Dixie Fire in the Sierra Nevada burned nearly 1 million acres in 2021, including almost the entire community of Greenville. Then strong wind…
Gov. Jared Polis signed a suite of wildfire prevention and recovery-related bills Friday, clearing the way for the state to stand up a new emergency insurance plan, standardize fire-resistant building codes and buy a $26 million firefighting helicopter.The 11 bills were all passed during the 2023 legislative session, which ended Monday. They represent t…
The North American Carbon World (NACW) conference addresses the most pressing issues in climate policy and carbon markets to the largest gathering of climate professionals in North America. As the climate community is planning and preparing for a new era of climate policy, action, and diplomacy, NACW will explore opportunities for achieving climate solu…
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From its inception the intent of the The Fourth International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: Climate Change and Wildfires has been to bring to the forefront the relevance of these topics not normally discussed in other wildland fire conferences. Since the Third Symposium held in Carolina, Puerto Rico, disastrous events…