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-stage Heckman procedure. Using 37 years of spatial and temporal information on weather and fire records in Southern California, this …Catastrophic wildfires in California have become more frequent in past decades, while insured losses per event have … been rising substantially. On average, California ranks the highest among states in the U.S. in the number of fires as well …
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understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … burned in California can be accounted for by variation in temperature, precipitation, housing construction, electricity … transmission, and ocean surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Equatorial Pacific. California is of …
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-stage Heckman procedure. Using 37 years of spatial and temporal information on weather and fire records in Southern California, this …Catastrophic wildfires in California have become more frequent in past decades, while insured losses per event have … been rising substantially. On average, California ranks the highest among states in the U.S. in the number of fires as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278168
new logging techniques have driven this increase. The last 400 years of exploitation of the land has created a fire …
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, maintenance, and management data with emergency response records from fire departments and weather data. Using panel data … management significantly reduces fire risk, particularly during droughts, warm weather, and periods with strong winds. The reason …Unmanaged and overgrown coastal heathlands represent a substantial fire hazard. We analyse how this hazard in Norwegian …
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Forest degradation by fires is growing in a fast pace in the Brazilian portion of the Amazonian rainforest, damaging the regional environment and economy. Seeking to measure the impact of such process on rainfall, the paper analyses a wide diversity of fine-grained satellite measurements with...
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occur. Extracting data on wildfires (a frequent type of disaster in the U.S.) and using ESG ratings and EPA air enforcement …
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Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. We study the impact of exposure to wildfires on air pollutants and on human health in Chile, finding substantial impacts on both classes of outcomes. We use data on 15 wildfire seasons (2004-2018) matched with granular (intra-day) records of...
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This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel from 2005 to 2020 utilizing NASA's MODIS Collection-6 MCD64A1 burned area product and household surveys. To attain survey representativeness at a lower geographical level, we...
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Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective … mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of California's wildfire building codes on own- and neighboring structure …
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