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Displaying 15 of about 134 resultsThis research analyzed Twitter communications about wildfires and smoke from 2022 authored by institutional public health and environmental accounts in Washington and Oregon. This study compared Tweeting patterns over time, in connection with potential wildfire smoke exposure, and evaluated communications based on whether they encouraged the adoption of…
[...]Known as the Bushfire Resilience Rating, the app is a world-first rating system that assesses how vulnerable a specific house is to bushfire.[...]To do so, the app combines information about the house, provided by the user, with detailed data about the local environment and the current climate.[...]The Resilient Building Council has been…
Wildfires are a growing threat in a world shaped by climate change. Now, researchers at Aalto University have developed a neural network model that can accurately predict the occurrence of fires in peatlands. They used the new model to assess the effect of different strategies for managing fire risk and identified a suite of interventions that would red…
The 11th annual climate prediction applications science workshop (CPASW) will convene in Logan, Utah, and focus on “Climate Information for Natural Resource Management.” This theme will integrate broad aspects of climate information applications in water, land, forest, wildlife, habitat, energy, and other natural resources management. Climate is a cross…
Emergency management can be spoken about in terms of ‘Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery’ (PPRR) or the ‘Comprehensive Approach’ to managing disasters and emergencies. This report is focused on public information in the response phase.
Identifying the current state of practice and challenges in the public information function of Tasmania F…
The wildfire risk landscape in Canada has changed rapidly. Each year between 2000 and 2014, an average of 13 000 Canadians were forced to evacuate their homes due to wildfires – more than double the figure in the 1980s. Evacuations skyrocketed in 2016 and 2017.
The number of people living in wildland-urban interface areas in Canada that are prone to wi…
Vegetation fires affect human infrastructures, ecosystems, global vegetation distribution, and atmospheric composition. However, the climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic factors that control global fire activity in vegetation are only poorly understood, and in various complexities and formulations are represented in global process-oriented vegetat…
In this report we provide a framework for assessing cross-boundary wildfire exposure and a case study application in the western U.S. The case study provides detailed mapping and tabular decision support materials for prioritizing fuel management investments aimed at reducing wildfire exposure to communities located proximal to national forests. The wor…
This Research Advisory Forum (RAF) will focus on the physical science and engineering projects of the BNHCRC research program. Clusters presenting will be:
Coastal management
Monitoring and prediction
Next generation fire modelling
Prescribed burning and catchment management
Hardening buildings and infrastructure
The RAF is an activity that sup…
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…
This project has studied the dynamics, predictability, and processes of severe weather, including fire weather, with the purpose of understanding phenomena with severe impact, improving forecasts of severe weather, and better depicting forecast uncertainty in these events. These goals help facilitate better risk management, improve user preparation, re…
This handbook reviews the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management. The focus is on specific hazards, including flood, cyclone, earthquake, landslide, volcanic activity and forest fire. While space-based information can significantly enhance disaster emergenc…
This report assesses the occurrence and impacts of disasters and the underlying hazards such as storms, extreme temperature events, forest fires, water scarcity and droughts, floods, snow avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes and technological accidents in Europe for the period 1998-2009. It also addresses the advances in disaster risk reductio…
By Megan Rowling
London - Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday.
The total was almost double the 2011 number, as major floods hit India and Nigeria last year, accounting for 41 percent of global di…
A major nursing service provider claims that recent natural disasters, such as bushfires, prompted improvements of policies in community care, reports Nursing Review. She said that although fire plans were in place, people were not prepared enough.
Rosemary Hogan, the general manager of client services for the Royal District Nursing Service said that f…