Fire impacts and management
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Wildfires are essential for maintaining ecological balance, but they can also cause serious damage to ecosystems and wildlife. Fires release large amounts of carbon dioxide and organic and inorganic aerosol particles into the atmosphere, affecting air quality and ultimately human health. Community preparedness and effective fire management are therefore essential to minimize ecological, human and material impacts and losses, and require a comprehensive approach that takes into account both natural processes and human activities.
In this cross-journal Collection, we invite articles that document the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of fire, assess advances in fire prevention and protection, and propose new pathways for fire management.
Editors
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Yongqiang Liu, PhD
USDA Forest Service, USA
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Guest Editor for Communications Earth & Environment
Yongqiang Liu, PhD
USDA Forest Service, USA
Dr Yongqiang Liu is a Research Meteorologist and Leader of Atmospheric Science Team at Center for Forest Disturbance Science, USDA Forest Service. He holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Dynamics from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He conducted post-doctoral research on land-atmospheric interactions in Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Before joining US Forest Service, Dr. Liu conducted research on regional climate modeling in the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado and on the climate impact of atmospheric aerosol in Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. His current research is focused on ecosystem-climate interactions through conducting field measurement, data analysis, and numerical modeling to understand wildland fires and other forest disturbances, the environmental and human health impacts, and interactions with climate. He has been leading several US Forest Service wildfire smoke projects in recent years, including comprehensive fuel-fire-smoke-meteorology field campaigns and national fire and smoke assessments, and served as a leading author for a number of review and synthesis papers on wildfire, smoke, and climate change.
