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Shifting Wildfire Trends and Management Implications for the Wildland Urban Interface in the Twenty-first Century

In: Fire Safety and Management Awareness

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  • Rebecca Abney
  • Qin Ma

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Anthropogenic climate change is projected to impact a significant proportion of ecosystems throughout the world. These shifts in climate are already impacting a diversity of wildland and urban ecosystems, and they are projected to increase wildfire frequency and severity in many regions. This projected increase is the result of the interaction of altered drought, precipitation, and temperature regimes. Understanding shifts in wildfire regimes is critical for managers at the wildland-urban interface that work to protect structures and human life. This chapter will explore how ongoing and future shifts in climate will drive alterations to natural fire regimes in the United States, with focus on implications for the wildland-urban interface.

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  • Rebecca Abney & Qin Ma, 2020. "Shifting Wildfire Trends and Management Implications for the Wildland Urban Interface in the Twenty-first Century," Chapters, in: Dr. Fahmina Zafar & Anujit Ghosal (ed.), Fire Safety and Management Awareness, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:207832
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93245
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    Keywords

    climate change; fire regime; urban-natural interface; wildfire;
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    • H84 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Disaster Aid

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