Environmental Disasters and Property Values: Evidence from Nepal's Forest Fires

2021 ◽  
pp. 110519-0159R2
Author(s):  
Jayash Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Environmental Disasters

scholarly journals Public Attention Reduced Forest Fires in the Brazilian Amazon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Araujo ◽  
Francisco Costa ◽  
Teevrat Garg
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Active Fire ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Bolivian Amazon ◽  
Before And After

Abstract International frameworks and agreements to reduce anthropogenic environmental disasters rely on international pressure driving local action. Although environmental catastrophes can occasionally capture international attention, it is unclear if focused media and increased public outcry can reduce environmental damage. We study the unusual and concentrated increase in international scrutiny on forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2019. Comparing active fires in the Brazilian Amazon versus those in the Peruvian and Bolivian Amazon before and after a surge in public attention on the Brazilian Amazon, we find that increased public attention reduced fires by 22% (93,607 avoided pixel-days of active fire) avoiding 24.81 million MtCO2 in emissions. Our results highlight the power of international pressure to compel governments to act on pressing environmental issues, even in political contexts hostile to environmental priorities.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF THE VISIBILITY CAPABILITIES OF FOREST FIRE LOOKOUT TOWERS: THE CASE OF GEMLIK, BURSA, TURKEY

2021 ◽  
Vol XLVI-4/W5-2021 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
A. E. Akay
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Marmara Region ◽  
Visibility Analysis ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Mediterranean Regions ◽  
The City

Abstract. In Turkey, there are forest areas that are sensitive to fire in the first degree, especially along the coastline in the Marmara region and the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. As a result of forest fires, which is one of the biggest environmental disasters on forest resources, approximately 10000 hectares of forest area is damaged annually. One of the important elements of combating forest fires is early detection. In order to achieve this goal, the correct positioning of fire lookout towers is of great importance. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate visibility capabilities of forest fire lookout tower in Gemlik Forestry Enterprise Chief (FEC) located in the city of Bursa. Firstly, the visibility analysis was implemented using in ArcGIS 10.4.1 to evaluate the existing fire tower in the FEC, and then considering the potential fire lookout tower in the study area, the visible areas from both existing and new tower were determined. According to the results, while 63.55% of the study area was visible from the existing tower, this ratio increased to 77.39% when the second tower was added. When only the forest areas are evaluated, the existing tower could see 71.73% of the forest areas, while the visible forest areas have increased to 83.36% when the two towers were taken into account. It has been seen that the visibility capacities of existing towers and potential towers can be evaluated effectively by using GIS-based visibility analysis.

scholarly journals Reproductive toxicants in the environment and their role in some human diseases (Сlinic)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Z.M. Dubossarskaya
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Diseases ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Active Debate ◽  
Reproductive Toxicants ◽  
Reproductive Toxins

In recent decades, there has been a fairly active debate on the role of genetic predisposition, average factors, adverse effects of reproductive toxins, infections, special behaviour that includes harmful habits for human diseases and not to implement their reproductive plans. Environmental disasters, the Covid-19 pandemic, the incorporation of the modern human and industrial waste, forest fires, excessive radiation following the national tragedy of Chernobyl has become global, not only the age of dependent diseases, but the disorders of the main functional systems of the female and male organism that result in reproductive function, reduce the quality of life and duration. Unfavourable medium effects, disturb the process of interacting with the genotype of the organism in shaping the phenotype. This information is needed by doctors to develop periconceptology, which is the task of this clinical lecture.

scholarly journals One Decade of Environmental Disasters in Brazil: The Action of Veterinary Rescue Teams

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Sássi ◽  
Gabriel Domingos Carvalho ◽  
Leonardo Maggio de Castro ◽  
Cláudio Zago Junior ◽  
Vânia de Fátima Plaza Nunes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Dam Break ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Knowledge To Action ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Interdisciplinary Concept ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul

Based on the interdisciplinary concept of One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health, this paper focuses on participatory knowledge-to-action approaches by relating one decade of environmental disasters in Brazil with the action of veterinary rescue teams, aiming to give support to future disaster preparedness. This paper will present the historic actions of teams rescuing animal that are victims of environmental disasters, in addition to addressing the need for contingency plans and response management in these types of events. The main events in Brazilian states where veterinary rescue teams participated were, chronologically, as follows: 2011 flood and landslide (Rio de Janeiro); 2012 flood (Acre, Minas Gerais, and Pará); 2015 dam break (Minas Gerais); 2017 flood (Minas Gerais) and forest fire (Minas Gerais and Goiás); 2019 dam break and evacuation (Minas Gerais) and flood (Bahia); 2020 flood (Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais) and forest fires (Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul). The Brazilian disasters that had a large global repercussion were the ruptures of the ore dams in Marina (2015) and Brumadinho (2019), both in the State of Minas Gerais. The role of veterinarians in these events was recognized by the Federal Council of Veterinary Medicine (CFMV) after their performance in Mariana, Minas Gerais (2015), and in 2020, the CFMV approved the National Mass Disaster Contingency Plan Involving Animals. The work of veterinarians in interaction with other professionals in environmental disasters proved to be effective and necessary for the rescue of animals and for planning and giving support to disaster preparedness in the future.

Beetles sniff out forest fires

Nature ◽  
1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Gee
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires
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