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Louise Comfort1, Saemi Chang2

  • 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

Risk Analysis : an Official Publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
|March 13, 2025
PubMed

Keywords:
California wildfire riskcollective intelligencecomplex adaptive systemssystem dynamics modelingtransitions in dynamic change

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