S Oliveira, J Rocha, A Sá - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wildfires occur worldwide and affect different territories in diverse ways. New challenges in wildfire management are emerging, fueled by climatic, land cover, and sociodemographic …
This paper presents a review of concepts related to wildfire risk assessment, including the determination of fire ignition and propagation (fire danger), the extent to which fire may …
The impacts and threats posed by wildfires are dramatically increasing due to climate change. In recent years, the wildfire community has attempted to estimate wildfire …
Climate change is leading to a rise in the occurrence and intensity of wildfires, exacerbated by the growing encroachment of communities into the natural environment, posing …
During the 2017 wildfire season in Portugal, unprecedented episodes burned 6% of the country's area and underscored the need for a long-term comprehensive solution to mitigate …
In Mediterranean agropastoral areas, land abandonment is a key driver of wildfire risk as fuel load and continuity increase. To gain insights into the potential impacts of land …
A Fekete, U Nehren - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, Germany has seen an increase in forest fires, and many fires have occurred in military training areas that are difficult to access for firefighting. While casualties are still …
Despite growing interest in developing extensive fuel treatment programs to prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Mediterranean region, there is little information on the projected …
We examined the financial efficiency and effectiveness of landscape versus community protection fuel treatments to reduce structure exposure and loss to wildfire on a large fire …