“Carbon Pulse: Spark Notes”
A new paper on ways to reduce wildfire exposure in the wildland-urban interface is mentioned in Carbon Pulse’s daily newsletter.
A new report from Resources for the Future, a US non-profit think tank, outlined how state and local governments can better reduce wildfire exposure in the wildland-urban interface by coordinating land use planning with hazard mitigation. It claimed that although local tools like zoning, comprehensive plans, and hazard mitigation plans are widely used, they often fail to adequately address where and how communities grow in fire-prone areas. The report recommended aligning planning documents such as Community Wildfire Protection Plans with land use goals, enhancing the role of states in guiding local decisions, and using tools like wildfire resilience zoning overlays or transfer of development rights to steer development away from high-risk zones.
