Wildfires, Air Pollution & Public Health
Toby Green
This list of reports was compiled during the Canadian Wildfire Crisis in June 2023.
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EASAC: European Academies' Science Advisory Council · 12 August 2022 English
of climate change on physical and mental health, via Publication of the regional reports was accompanied by both direct and indirect pathways, vary within and engagement with the science and …
ULI: Urban Land Institute · 20 November 2020 English
WILDFIRE SEASON began early, and by September, 100 large wildfires burned in 12 states.1 These wildfires—as well as the catastrophic events of 2017 and 2018—are remarkable in the scale of …
Grattan Institute · 10 August 2021 English
The health effects of the 2019-20 bushfires Submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Stephen Duckett, Will Mackey, and Anika Stobart The health effects of the 2019-20 …
PSE: PSE Healthy Energy · 24 March 2022 English
This report is organized into the following sections: • 1.0 Introduction and Approach: Overview of wildfire risk in the United States and the need to evaluate and weigh the air …
ATS: American Thoracic Society · 21 August 2020 English
Inhaling smoke can be especially dangerous to This fact sheet provides you with actions you can those with lung disease (such as asthma, COPD/ take to avoid adverse health effects …
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment · 5 October 2020 English
The rapid increase in The health costs of wildfire smoke are wildfire activity has led to a naturally expected increase massive — and growing in wildfire smoke, both in the …
UNDRR: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction · 3 August 2020 English
Pascal Pochard-Casabianca AFP The views presented in this document, designations employed, and the presentation of maps do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the …
PHRI: The Population Health Improvement Research Network · 10 April 2013 English
To aid with the development of a resource, we have mapped content and format of existing resources with suggested components for a resource for northeast Ontario and have proposed next …
UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists · 19 August 2014 English
Climate change is producing hotter, drier conditions in the American West, which contribute to more large wildfires and longer wildfire seasons.
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 23 May 2008 English
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing …
National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health · 22 October 2019 English
Though the health systems of Canada and the United States have many differences, much of the public health knowledge and expertise required to effectively respond to wildfire smoke events is …
UNDRR: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction · 14 August 2020 English
The views presented in this document, designations employed, and the presentation of maps do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the …
IAP: InterAcademy Partnership · 24 May 2022 English
monitoring, surveillance and assessment of However, to be successful, greater political health impacts and their attribution to climate attention to the health effects of climate change and in the evaluation …
PSE: PSE Healthy Energy · 30 July 2020 English
Expanded information regarding the concentration and distribution of chemicals in wildfire smoke and prescribed fire smoke will help inform risk communication and management efforts aimed to protect populations from the …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 24 May 2023 English
This paper presents a review of concepts related to wildfire risk assessment, including the determination of fire ignition and propagation (fire danger), the extent to which fire may spatially overlap …
CEEPR: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research · 17 February 2021 English
We’ll begin by following the stories of the two most destructive wildfire seasons the state has ever seen, before diving into the story of the Camp Fire, and the events …
NRCan: Natural Resources Canada · 4 April 2006 English
WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature · 20 August 2020 English
This one is taking place in forests, where the latest It is estimated that humans are responsible for fire seasons have been raging with unprecedented around 75% of all wildfires,2 …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 22 February 2022 English
Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, ravaging communities and ecosystems in their path. Recent years have seen record-breaking wildfire seasons across the world from Australia to the Arctic …
UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists · 16 May 2023 English
Some of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers are now directly connected to wildfires across western North America.
World Bank Group · 3 March 2022 English
Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change is likely to increase the number and size of …
UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists · 16 May 2023 English
Some of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers are now directly connected to wildfires across western North America.
Climate Council · 18 February 2015
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