Air pollution in the Nordic countries from biomass burning in Eastern Europe

Karlsson, Per Erik; Hole, Lars Robert; Tømmervik, Hans; (Zadorozhnia), Elena Kobets

doi:10.6027/anp2015-766

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“…Documented transnational smoke issues have occurred in Europe, North America and elsewhere. For example, agricultural burning in Eastern Europe can send smoke to the Scandinavian countries [119], and wildfires in Canada have cast palls in the eastern USA. However, the most notorious transboundary offence is the Southeast Asian 'haze' that has resulted for several decades from the burning of tropical rainforest and peatlands, largely driven by land conversion into large-scale palm oil and pulpwood plantations [120].…”

Section: Transnational Issues For Fire In a Warming Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

Roos

Scott

Belcher

et al. 2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire challenges at local, national and transnational scales. Exploiting our diverse, international and interdisciplinary expertise, we outline generalizable properties of fire-adaptive communities in varied settings where cultural knowledge of fire is rich and diverse. At the national scale, we discussed policy and management challenges for countries that have diminishing fire knowledge, but for whom global climate change will bring new fire problems. Finally, we assessed major fire challenges that transcend national political boundaries, including the health burden of smoke plumes and the climate consequences of wildfires. It is clear that to best address the broad range of fire problems, a holistic wildfire scholarship must develop common agreement in working terms and build across disciplines. We must also communicate our understanding of fire and its importance to the media, politicians and the general public.This article is part of the themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.

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Section: Transnational Issues For Fire In a Warming Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

Roos

Scott

Belcher

et al. 2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Rekindling these practices might have landscape-wide biodiversity benefits and reduce regional smoke pollution [61,64]. Fires to remove crop residues remain a common and important source of air pollution in many parts of the world with well-documented adverse health impacts [65][66][67]. However, the most extreme and prolonged landscape fire smoke events are now caused by tropical deforestation and peat fires that are used to clear land for agricultural purposes [68].…”

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The pyrohealth transition: how combustion emissions have shaped health through human history

Johnston

Melody

Bowman

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Air pollution from landscape fires, domestic fires and fossil fuel combustion is recognized as the single most important global environmental risk factor for human mortality and is associated with a global burden of disease almost as large as that of tobacco smoking. The shift from a reliance on biomass to fossil fuels for powering economies, broadly described as the pyric transition, frames key patterns in human fire usage and landscape fire activity. These have produced distinct patters of human exposure to air pollution associated with the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions and post-industrial the Earth global system-wide changes increasingly known as the Anthropocene. Changes in patterns of human fertility, mortality and morbidity associated with economic development have been previously described in terms of demographic, epidemiological and nutrition transitions, yet these frameworks have not explicitly considered the direct consequences of combustion emissions for human health. To address this gap, we propose a pyrohealth transition and use data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) collaboration to compare direct mortality impacts of emissions from landscape fires, domestic fires, fossil fuel combustion and the global epidemic of tobacco smoking. Improving human health and reducing the environmental impacts on the Earth system will require a considerable reduction in biomass and fossil fuel combustion. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.

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Air pollution in the Nordic countries from biomass burning in Eastern Europe

Cited by 2 publications

References 10 publications

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

The pyrohealth transition: how combustion emissions have shaped health through human history

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