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Although the threat of forest fires is prevalent across the globe, there exists limited empirical evidence on how such environmental disasters influence access and equity in educational outcomes through economic channels. In this article, I combine…
Author(s): Jayash Paudel
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Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Author(s): Michele R. Crist, Rick Belger, Kirk W. Davies, Dawn Davis, James R. Meldrum, Douglas J. Shinneman, Thomas E. Remington, Justin L. Welty, Kenneth E. Mayer
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Increases in burned forest area across the western United States and southwestern Canada over the last several decades have been partially driven by a rise in vapor pressure deficit (VPD), a measure of the atmosphere's drying power that is…
Author(s): Kristina A. Dahl, John T. Abatzoglou, Carly A. Phillips, J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Rachel Licker, L. Delta Merner, Brenda Ekwurzel
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Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating…
Author(s): Antonio Girona-García, Carola Cretella, Cristina Fernández, Peter R. Robichaud, Diana C.S. Vieira, Jan J. Keizer
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Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to…
Author(s): The Aspen Institute, The Nature Conservancy
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