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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Wildfire prevention and mitigation the case of Southern Greece /

Zirogiannis, Nikolaos, January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-134).
2

Precipitation and radar reflectivity associated with natural wildfire ignitions in Arizona and New Mexico

Hall, Beth L. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. / "May 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-118). Online version available on the World Wide Web.
3

Communicating the wildland fire message : an investigation of agency outreach strategies /

Toman, Eric Lee. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2006. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.
4

Wildfire management in the wildland urban interface alternatives to evacuation, social diversity and media influences /

Paveglio, Travis Brent, January 2010 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2010. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2010). "Department of Natural Resource Sciences." Includes bibliographical references.
5

Evaluating the impact of oceanic/atmospheric teleconnections on historical wildfires in West Virginia (1939-2006)

Lynch, Cary. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2010. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 75 p. : ill., maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-57).
6

Impact of climatic variability on the fire behaviour of different land ecosystems

Viegas de Barros, Ana Lúcia January 2011 (has links)
Wildfires are a natural phenomenon that strongly impacts the environment. Many terrestrial ecosystems depend on fire to maintain their ecological equilibrium and biodiversity, but new destructive fire patterns, often associated with land management practices and rapid climate change, have been degrading soil and water resources, increasing erosion by wind, precipitation and floods, decreasing biodiversity and contributing to desertification. Furthermore, pyrogenic emissions from biomass burning are an important source of atmospheric pollution and they impact the radiative balance of the troposphere, strongly contributing to the greenhouse effect. The objective of this research was to investigate the impact of climate variability on geographic, ecological, seasonal and inter-annual distributions of fires and correspondent pyrogenic emissions, across a variety of ecosystems. With this purpose, 10 years of world, monthly, 1°x1° gridded data, from the Global Fire Emissions Database, were compared with land-cover data, from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, and with weather data, from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre and the Global Hydrology Resource Centre. Overall, the climate parameters significantly correlated with carbon emissions were air and soil temperature, air and soil humidity, rainfall, wind speed and lightning density during the fire season, and also precipitation and snow cover up to 6 months before the fire season. Good statistical quantitative models of carbon emissions (correlations above 70%, and up to 95%, between estimated and predicted values, with residuals normally distributed) using humidity, temperature or lagged rainfall as predictors, were found almost exclusively in tropical grasslands, shrublands and woodlands, especially in Africa, where fire behaviour was more regular. In boreal and temperate forests and woodlands, where fire patterns were irregular and fire returning periods were larger, there were not enough fires, in 10 years of data, to obtain useful predictive statistical models. The fire models presented here, together with the quantitative statistical relationships found between climate and fire patterns, in different land ecosystems, are apt to be used in predictive climate models, land management, fire risk assessment and mitigation of climate change.
7

Social values for attributes at risk from wildfire in northwest Montana

O'Donnell, Derek Timothy. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (MS)--University of Montana, 2009. / Contents viewed on February 11, 2010. Title from author supplied metadata. Includes bibliographical references.
8

Citizen perspectives on hazardous fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains : findings and implications from panel research /

Toman, Eric Lee. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2003. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-110). Also available on the World Wide Web.
9

Potential effects of wildfire on watershed hydrologic responses : Sabino Creek Basin, Arizona /

Guardiola-Claramonte, Maria-Teresa. January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. - Hydrology and Water Resources)--University of Arizona. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).
10

Equity in wildfire risk management : does socioeconomic status predict involvement in federal programs to mitigate wildfire risk? /

Ojerio, Ryan S., January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-72). Also available online.

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