The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire.
Globally, environmental disasters impact billions of people and cost trillions of dollars in damage, and their impacts are often felt most acutely by minority and poor communities. Wildfires in the U.S. have similarly outsized impacts on vulnerable communities, though the ethnic and geographic distr...
Main Authors: | Ian P Davies, Ryan D Haugo, James C Robertson, Phillip S Levin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6214520?pdf=render |
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