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Assessing the effect of a fuel break network to reduce burnt area and wildfire risk transmission

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Oliveira, Tiago M., Barros, Ana M. G., Ager, Alan A., and Fernandes, Paulo M.

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Wildfires pose complex challenges to policymakers and fire agencies. Fuel break networks and area-wide fuel treatments are risk-management options to reduce losses from large fires. Two fuel management scenarios covering 3% of the fire-prone Algarve region of Portugal and differing in the intensity of treatment in 120-m wide fuel breaks...

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Objective and perceived wildfire risk and its influence on private forest landowners’ fuel reduction activities in Oregon’s (USA) ponderosa pine ecoregion

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Fischer, A. Paige, Kline, Jeffrey D., Ager, Alan A., Charnley, Susan, and Olsen, Keith A.

Abstract:

Policymakers seek ways to encourage fuel reduction among private forest landowners to augment similar efforts on federal and state lands. Motivating landowners to contribute to landscape-level wildfire protection requires an understanding of factors that underlie landowner behaviour regarding wildfire. We developed a conceptual framework describing landowners’ propensity to conduct fuel...

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Journal of Wildland Fire, 23(1), 143-153. doi:10.1071/WF12164 10.1071/WF12164 CSIRO Publishing Version