and fire risks to people, property and the environment and how they can be mitigated. Thus, the risk framing, for practical purposes, has been focused on the building scale (at least in this first application). While it is fully recognized...
Adopting early dry season fires has been proposed as a means of generating sufficient carbon revenues to pay for conservation in Africa. However, the climatic impact thereof is deeply questionable and may have unforeseen detrimental effects. Tony Knowles Nicola Stevens Sally Archibald Reviews06 Jan ...
The forest has a long history of wildfires; however, since 1990, the ecosystem has experienced annual fires, with a majority occurring between January and March, largely due to human activities in the forest (Kenya Wildlife Service 2010). The most affected areas are the moorlands, heathlands an...
like the rural-urban interface safe. This is for instance done by the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service in Spain (Castellnou et al.,2019) and can be a valuable strategy to minimize unwanted fire impacts if fire and land management services are sufficiently trained to use these strategies and if...
water pump repair, vehicle outfitting, general maintenance, inspections, and both in-house and mobile service options. “Previously, we subcontracted a lot of our service work, which presented challenges for our customers, especially with warranty-level repairs,” said Geoff Strain, general manager ...
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This phrase is thrown around in the fire service more casually than stickers and challenge coins these days. I’m sure it started off innocently enough. The senior man, sipping coffee, tells a war story and shows the rookie a little trick of the trade he learned on that call. “You migh...
Digital maps (1:250,000) locating these points were collected from the National Catalogue Service for Geographic Information. We calculated the Euclidean distance to the nearest railway, road, river, and settlement, respectively, to create four raster layers by ArcGIS. These distances served as ...
The fire of 1945, according to a visual interpretation of aerial photographs obtained by the Hellenik Military Geographical Service, burned 773 ha of the study area while this of 1990 burned 1,305 ha, including the entire area of 1945. Approximately 710 ha of the site escaped both fires and...
OCI Network Firewall is a cloud native, managed service that is fully integrated into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Secure traffic between on-premises environments and OCI In the second use case, a virtual cloud network is logically connected to a customer’s on-premises environment. The virtual cl...