Exploring the impact of resident proximity to wildfires in the northern Rocky Mountains: Perceptions of climate change risks, drought, and policy

Craig, Christopher A.; Allen, Myria Watkins; Feng, Song; Spialek, Matthew L.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101420

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“…The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2021) report reiterates the “unequivocal” human influence on the warming of the atmosphere, ocean and land, and highlights the strengthened evidence in changes of extreme events like heatwaves, heavy precipitation, droughts, and tropical cyclones. The occurrence of extreme events such as floods (Demski et al, 2017), wildfires (Craig et al, 2020), or storms (Rudman et al, 2013) triggers public debate and engagement with the reality and impacts of anthropogenic climate change (Boudet et al, 2019).…”

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Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires

Daume

Galaz

Bjersér

2023

Social Media + Society

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Extreme weather-related events like wildfires have been increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. Public online conversations that reflect on these events as climate emergencies can create awareness and build support for climate action but are also used to spread misinformation and climate change denial. To what extent automated social media accounts—“social bots”—amplify different perspectives of such events and influence climate change discourses, remains unknown, however. We use Twitter and the 2019/2020 Australia bushfires as a case study to explore this issue. Utilizing more than 1 million Tweets, we identify how climate change is framed in the context of those fires, and to what extent social bots affect specific climate change frames, including the spread of misinformation. Our results show that climate change represents a substantial part of online conversations about fires. The bushfires are primarily framed as a climate change issue including its measurable impacts and political perspectives. Climate denial represents a small share of this conversation and receives limited amplification. Social bots seemingly contribute to the climate change conversation, both through frames that support and oppose climate action, and amplify to larger degree frames appealing to emotions, such as sympathy or humor. We also find that Twitter discussions about the role of social bots in spreading climate denial are amplified more than actual climate-critical frames propagated by bots. A complex interplay between social bots, Twitter conversations, and online news media is emerging, which shapes discussions about climate change and wildfires.

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Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires

Daume

Galaz

Bjersér

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Since 2018, there has been a significant growth in settlements near WUI zones [1]. The problem of the occurrence of forest fires inside the WUI is becoming more and more significant [2][3][4]. Due to the sharp growth in settlements near the WUI zones, the number of potential sources of ignition has increased, which has increased the likely destructive impact [5,6].…”

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Physical and Chemical Macroscopic Processes in Wooden Construction Materials of Buildings during WUI Fires: Recent and Advanced Developments

Baranovskiy

Malinin

2022

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Forest fires are one of the strongest natural phenomena, occurring both for natural and man-made reasons. Forest fires entail not only economic losses, but also affect the ecological, biological and demographic picture of the region of its origin and far beyond its borders. Around the world, work is underway to develop effective methods for predicting the impact of a forest fire on the environment, the speed and direction of propagation and impact on various infrastructure facilities near the wildland–urban interface (WUI). The purpose of the work is to review recent and significant research works on the physical and chemical processes in wooden construction materials during WUI fires. As a result of the analysis of literary sources, works devoted to the modeling and experimental study of various physical and chemical processes, namely, the impact of forest fires on residential and industrial facilities, heat and mass transfer in structural materials, drying processes, pyrolysis, and ignition of structural materials, are highlighted. The results of the analysis of literature sources and promising directions are presented in the Discussion section. The formulated conclusions are presented in the Conclusion section. The main conclusion is that the existing experimental and theoretical work can be integrated into the developed deterministic–probabilistic approach for predicting the impact of a forest fire on buildings.

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Application of Signal Processing in Tracking Meteorological Drought in a Mountainous Region

Vaheddoost

Safari

2021

Pure Appl. Geophys.

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Exploring the impact of resident proximity to wildfires in the northern Rocky Mountains: Perceptions of climate change risks, drought, and policy

Cited by 7 publications

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Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires

Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires

Physical and Chemical Macroscopic Processes in Wooden Construction Materials of Buildings during WUI Fires: Recent and Advanced Developments

Application of Signal Processing in Tracking Meteorological Drought in a Mountainous Region

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