B051
Fire management as climate policy

Session ID#: 76425

Session Description:
As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires, wildfires themselves exacerbate climate change through the release of greenhouse gases and black carbon. Together with expanding populations, this reinforcing cycle also leads to destruction of critical infrastructure, negative health outcomes from smoke, and loss of life. Fire management, however, has the potential to protect carbon, ecosystems, and human well-being, and minimize feedbacks to climate change and thus the intensification of wildfires. The aim of this session is to explore how fire management can interrupt this wildfire cycle, and reduce the impacts of climate change while minimizing the consequences of carbon loss. We encourage abstracts that address interactions between wildfire science, public health, and climate policy, with an emphasis on those that address (1) feedbacks between wildfires and climate change, (2) impacts of wildfire on public health and (3) fire management as a strategy to limit atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.
Index Terms:

0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0485 Science policy [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]


Primary Convener:  Carly Anne Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Brendan M Rogers, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Peter C Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carly Anne Phillips, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
 
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