Defining extreme wildfire events: Difficulties, challenges, and impacts

F Tedim, V Leone, M Amraoui, C Bouillon… - Fire, 2018 - mdpi.com
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression
capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their …

What do you mean,'megafire'?

GD Linley, CJ Jolly, TS Doherty… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background 'Megafire'is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are
extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term's meaning remains …

Intellectual structure of CORINE land cover research applications in web of science: A Europe-wide review

E Bielecka, A Jenerowicz - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The objective of this paper is to manifest the intellectual and cognitive structure of CORINE
Land Cover (CLC) research applications. Data from the Web of Science (WoS) was used to …

[HTML][HTML] A recent review of fire behavior and fire effects on native vegetation in Central Chile

M Castillo, Á Plaza, R Garfias - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Central Chile experienced a very extended and devastating fire season during 2016–17.
After 3 years, here we present the results of an analysis of behavior of the wildfires occurred …

Land use change towards forests and wooded land correlates with large and frequent wildfires in Italy

D Ascoli, JV Moris, M Marchetti, L Sallustio - Annals of Silvicultural …, 2021 - iris.unito.it
It is commonly believed that wildfires in southern Europe have been favored by the
encroachment of flammable vegetation on cultivated and grazed areas no longer managed …

[HTML][HTML] Rural development funding and wildfire prevention: evidences of spatial mismatches with fire activity

M Colonico, A Tomao, D Ascoli, P Corona, F Giannino… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union Rural Development Program (RDP) is a major driver of
landscape change over time in Europe. In a context of climate and land use changes and …

Modeling spatio-temporal divergence in land vulnerability to desertification with local regressions

V Imbrenda, R Coluzzi, V Di Stefano, G Egidi, L Salvati… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Taken as a classical issue in applied economics, the notion of 'convergence'is based on the
concept of path dependence, ie, from the previous trajectory undertaken by the system …

Burn severity drivers in Italian large wildfires

F Malandra, A Vitali, D Morresi, M Garbarino, DE Foster… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increase of wildfire incidence in highly populated areas significantly enhances the risk
for ecosystems and human lives, activities and infrastructures. In central and southern Italy …

[HTML][HTML] Acceleration and fragmentation of CORINE land cover changes in the United Kingdom from 2006–2012 detected by Copernicus IMAGE2012 satellite data

B Cole, G Smith, H Balzter - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The CORINE land cover maps present the longest series of land cover maps with a
consistent class labelling system and date back to 1985. This paper presents the results of …

Ranking the importance of Wildfires' human drivers through a multi-model regression approach

LD Mancini, P Corona, L Salvati - Environmental Impact Assessment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wildfires are a major ecological disturbance in Mediterranean environments, and affect
together natural resources, ecosystem services and human activities. The impact of …