Demographic controls of future global fire risk

W. Knorr (), A. Arneth and L. Jiang
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W. Knorr: Lund University
A. Arneth: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research/Atmospheric Environmental Research
L. Jiang: Asian Demographic Research Institute, School of Sociology and Political Science Shanghai University

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 8, 781-785

Abstract: Wildfire damage is expected to increase under climate warming. Research now suggests that increased human exposure to wildfires will be driven primarily by population growth in areas with frequent wildfires, rather than by a general increase in fire area.

Date: 2016
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