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Little is known about how pollution impacts worker health and workplace safety. This paper leverages high-frequency, plausibly exogenous variation in wildfire smoke to estimate the impact of pollution on workplace injuries. Our analysis draws on unique data we construct through linking...
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the detrimental effects of forest fires, and a program to support establishing and maintaining forest fire prevention … infrastructures. Using the Synthetic Control Method the paper finds that the project resulted in a 35% reduction in forest fire …Forest fires are among the main drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa …
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We show in this paper how the characteristics of fire recurrency in forests can be theoretically derived from simple … informations concerning forest morphology. The task is accomplished by means of a minimal model encapsulating a few assumptions on … the interactions between overstorey and understorey species and on the mechanisms of fire development and transmission …
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create incentives to induce forest fires as a means to circumvent regulation and increase the supply of land available for … residential construction. I estimate the effect of the price of housing on the incidence of forest fires using Spanish data by … region for 1991-2005. The results suggest that higher house prices led to a significant increase in the incidence of forest …
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variables and forest fires. A number of studies have related forest fires to causes of ignition, to fire history in one area, to … relation between fire production and government prevention and extinction measures from a policy evaluation perspective. An … observational approach is first applied to select forest fires in the north east of Spain. Taking a selection of fires with a …
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The fires of 2010 in Central Russia changed the volume and quality of the forest ecosystem services greatly. It … social security, and the changing of social relations. The direct damage from these forest fires, according to official … statistics, is 230 million rubles and was determined by a combination of extreme temperatures and poor management of forest …
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a case study, an annual prescribed burning rate of 13% of all forest lands maximizes net welfare; ignoring the effects … fire services is inelastic, suggesting that increasing contract prescribed fire services on public lands may produce …
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Disturbance trends over recent decades indicate that climate change is resulting in increased fire severity and extent … measurements are required to identify changes in forest carbon stock and emissions. However, there is scant evidence in the …/2020 wildfires burnt around 6 to 7 million hectares of mainly temperate forest in south-east Australia, with estimates of CO 2 …
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