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There is a growing concern that human health impacts from exposure to wildfire smoke are ignored in estimates of …. Using unique primary data, this paper quantifies the economic cost of health effects from the largest wildfire in Los … behavior method is applied to calculate the willingness to pay for a reduction in one wildfire smoke induced symptom day, which …
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This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the Great Fire's effects on London's economic geography. Our analysis reveals both continuity and change. There was a swift postfire recovery accompanied by some shift in economic activity towards the City of Westminster by 1690, with markets...
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"Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that...
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Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of...
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