Preparedness for the 2007 Wildfire Season
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 72
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States Senate
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Published: 2019-11-30
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781713348313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preparedness for the 2007 wildfire season: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, to consider the preparedness of federal land management agencies for the 2007 wildfire season and to consider recent reports on the agencies' efforts to contain the costs of wildfire management activities, June 26, 2007.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 66
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U.S. Government Printing Office (Gpo)
Publisher: BiblioGov
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781293025987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- )
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0309499909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →California and other wildfire-prone western states have experienced a substantial increase in the number and intensity of wildfires in recent years. Wildlands and climate experts expect these trends to continue and quite likely to worsen in coming years. Wildfires and other disasters can be particularly devastating for vulnerable communities. Members of these communities tend to experience worse health outcomes from disasters, have fewer resources for responding and rebuilding, and receive less assistance from state, local, and federal agencies. Because burning wood releases particulate matter and other toxicants, the health effects of wildfires extend well beyond burns. In addition, deposition of toxicants in soil and water can result in chronic as well as acute exposures. On June 4-5, 2019, four different entities within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop titled Implications of the California Wildfires for Health, Communities, and Preparedness at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis. The workshop explored the population health, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity consequences of increasingly strong and numerous wildfires, particularly in California. This publication is a summary of the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
Author: Douglas Paton
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0398088446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wildfires represent a growing threat to environments, to people, communities, and to societies worldwide, particularly in the United States, Southern Europe, and Australia. Recognition of this growing risk has highlighted a need to develop people's capacity to adapt to annually occurring events that could increase in frequency and severity over the coming years and decades. The goal of ensuring sustained levels of protective measures in communities susceptible to wildfire hazard consequences has proved to be elusive. This book examines why this is so and identifies ways in which sustained levels of preparedness can be facilitated. Major topics include: wildfire preparedness and resiliency in community contexts; socially disastrous landscape fires in southeastern Australia; landscape typology of residential wildfire risk; proactive human response to wildfires outbreak; forest fires in wildland-urban interface, wildfire risk management; “stay or go” policy in the line of fire; social dimensions of forest fire; the influence of community diversity; evaluating a community engagement initiative; response to fire threats; social media and resiliency; and building on lessons learned. Additional information includes the landscape fires in southeastern Australia, wildfire risk management in Portugal; fire preparedness in Greece, Cyprus, and the Pine Barrens in the northeastern United States. The findings of research programs being conducted in the United States, Australia, Europe, India and South America are presented. The book includes case studies on the analysis and proposed actions of the wildland-urban interface being faced by Central Chile and South America. This book will provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the wildfire preparedness research and its application to the development of risk communications and public education programs.