Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle, and where wildfire problems are most pronounced. Here we report that the WUI in the United States grew rapidly from 1990 to 2010 in terms of both number of new houses (from 30.8 to 43.4 million;...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Jg. 115; H. 13; S. 3314
Hauptverfasser:	Radeloff, Volker C, Helmers, David P, Kramer, H Anu, Mockrin, Miranda H, Alexandre, Patricia M, Bar-Massada, Avi, Butsic, Van, Hawbaker, Todd J, Martinuzzi, Sebastián, Syphard, Alexandra D, Stewart, Susan I
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States 27.03.2018
Schlagworte:	Conservation of Natural Resources Ecosystem Housing Humans Risk Factors United States Urbanization Wildfires - statistics & numerical data development wildfires sprawl housing growth fragmentation
ISSN:	1091-6490, 1091-6490
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