The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States
Autor: | Jennifer Burney, Sam Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, Michael W. Wara, Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics Accident prevention Climate Change air pollution Air pollution Social Sciences Climate change Poison control 010501 environmental sciences Health outcomes medicine.disease_cause Sustainability Science 01 natural sciences Fires Occupational safety and health wildfire Wildfires Models Risk Factors Smoke 11. Sustainability medicine 2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment Humans Climate-Related Exposures and Conditions health impacts 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Models Statistical Multidisciplinary Prevention Environmental Exposure Statistical United States Geography climate change Pollution monitoring 13. Climate action Perspective Particulate Matter Environmental Pollution |
Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 118, iss 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Popis: | Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the United States. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland–urban interface in the United States, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 y. To illustrate how changes in wildfire activity might affect air pollution and related health outcomes, and how these linkages might guide future science and policy, we develop a statistical model that relates satellite-based fire and smoke data to information from pollution monitoring stations. Using the model, we estimate that wildfires have accounted for up to 25% of PM 2.5 (particulate matter with diameter |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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