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ArticlePNAS nexus2024

Wildfire risk management in the era of climate change.

Costas Emmanuel Synolakis, Georgios Marios Karagiannis

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Article in PNAS nexus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Performative planning creates a values mismatch between wildfire plans and community needs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Costas Emmanuel SynolakisViterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 3620 South Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0140-5379
Georgios Marios KaragiannisResilience First, 16 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5AH, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3021-3600

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The August 8, 2023R Lahaina fire refocused attention on wildfires, public alerts, and emergency management. Wildfire risk is on the rise, precipitated through a combination of climate change, increased development in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), decades of unmitigated biomass accumulation in forests, and a long history of emphasis on fire suppression over hazard mitigation. Stemming the tide of wildfire death and destruction will involve bringing together diverse scientific disciplines into policy. Renewed emphasis is needed on emergency alerts and community evacuations. Land management strategies need to account for the impact of climate change and hazard mitigation on forest ecosystems. Here, we propose a long-term strategy consisting of integrating wildfire risk management in wider-scope forest land management policies and strategies, and we discuss new technologies and possible scientific breakthroughs.

Indexed as

climate adaptationemergency managementevacuation modelingsatellite fire observationswildland fire risk

Identifiers

PMID38715728
PMCPMC11075647

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