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An ad hoc planning committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a two-day public workshop featuring invited speakers and discussants to be held in California to explore the population health, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity consequences of increasingly strong and numerous wildfires, particularly in California.
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Implications of the California Wildfires for Health, Communities, and Preparedness: Proceedings of a Workshop
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·2020
California and other wildfire-prone western states have experienced a substantial increase in the number and intensity of wildfires in recent years. Wildlands and climate experts expect these trends to continue and quite likely to worsen in coming years. Wildfires and other disasters can be particul...
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