Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

BB Lin, A Ossola, M Alberti, E Andersson… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Record climate extremes are reducing urban liveability, compounding inequality, and
threatening infrastructure. Adaptation measures that integrate technological, nature-based …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

M Goss, DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn
wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong …

The global wildland–urban interface

F Schug, A Bar-Massada, AR Carlson, H Cox… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is where buildings and wildland vegetation meet or
intermingle,. It is where human–environmental conflicts and risks can be concentrated …

Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: the entanglement of California's housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change

M Greenberg, H Angelo, E Losada… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
One of California's most pressing social and environmental challenges is the rapid
expansion of the wildlands–urban interface (WUI). Multiple issues associated with WUI …

Rising wildfire risk to houses in the United States, especially in grasslands and shrublands

VC Radeloff, MH Mockrin, D Helmers, A Carlson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Wildfire risks to homes are increasing, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI),
where wildland vegetation and houses are in close proximity. Notably, we found that more …

Facilitating prescribed fire in Northern California through Indigenous governance and interagency partnerships

T Marks-Block, W Tripp - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler
colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest …

Catastrophic bushfires, indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in Southeast Australia

MS Fletcher, A Romano, S Connor, M Mariani… - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
The catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires were the worst fire season in the
recorded history of Southeast Australia. These bushfires were one of several recent global …

Building water resilience in the face of cascading wildfire risks

MF Belongia, C Hammond Wagner, KQ Seipp… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Severe wildfire is altering the natural and the built environment and posing risks to
environmental and societal health and well-being, including cascading impacts to water …

The importance of geography in forecasting future fire patterns under climate change

AD Syphard, SJE Velazco, MB Rose, J Franklin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
An increasing amount of California's landscape has burned in wildfires in recent decades, in
conjunction with increasing temperatures and vapor pressure deficit due to climate change …