This article considers critically how one of the oldest and most widely applied statistical
methods, principal components analysis (PCA), is employed with spatial data. We first …

The article reviews the literature on social, economic, and building stock characteristics as
they relate to residential fire risk in urban neighborhoods. The article updates a previous …

Temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal analyses of structural fire incidents occurring in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2000 to 2006 are carried out. The aim of the study is to gather …

Fires in urban areas typically carry severe consequences. High population density together
with the complexity of urban network potentially imply significant impacts in property loss …

Fire Service is the fundamental civic service to protect citizens from irrecoverable, heavy
losses of lives and property. Hotspot analysis of structure fires is essential to estimate people …

Environmental criminology theory has established that crime is non-random across time and
space, instead clustering in specific, predictable ways. This has resulted in the development …

GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and
application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It explores how human geography can …

Since the end of the 1990s, the number of fires has increased dramatically in Malmö, a city
in the southernmost part of Sweden. Between 1998 and 2009, the increase was 215%, and …

In the context of changing demand for fire services, spatial optimisation of fire coverage has
attracted little scholarly attention despite its potential to improve emergency response and to …

Fires in urban areas can cause significant economic, physical and psychological damage.
Despite this, there has been a comparative lack of research into the spatial and temporal …