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Palaiologos Palaiologou, Kostas Kalabokidis, Michelle A. Day, Alan A. Ager, Spyros Galatsidas and Lampros Papalampros
Predicting where the next large-scale wildfire event will occur can help fire management agencies better prepare for taking preventive actions and improving suppression efficiency. Wildfire simulations can be useful in estimating the spread and behavior ...
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Ana Martin,Brigite Botequim,Tiago M. Oliveira,Alan Ager,Francesco Pirotti
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Aim of study: This study was conducted to support fire and forest management planning in eucalypt plantations based on economic, ecological and fire prevention criteria, with a focus on strategic prioritisation of fuel treatments over time. The central o...
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Cristina Montiel Molina and Luis Galiana-Martín
Humans and fire form a coupled and co-evolving natural-human system in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. In this context, recent trends in landscape change, such as urban sprawl or the abandoning of agricultural and forest land management in line with ne...
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Matthew P. Thompson, Joe Scott, Paul G. Langowski, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day, Jessica R. Haas and Elise M. Bowne
Wildfires can cause significant negative impacts to water quality with resultant consequences for the environment and human health and safety, as well as incurring substantial rehabilitation and water treatment costs. In this paper we will illustrate how...
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Jagpal Singh Tomar, Nikola Kranjcic, Bojan Ðurin, Shruti Kanga and Suraj Kumar Singh
The Himachal Pradesh district?s biggest natural disaster is the forest fire. Forest fire threat evaluation, model construction, and forest management using geographic information system techniques will be important in this proposed report. A simulation w...
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Torgrim Log, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv Guri Velle and Maria-Monika Metallinou
In recent years, severe and deadly wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have resulted in an increased focus on this particular risk to humans and property, especially in Canada, USA, Australia, and countries in the Mediterranean area. Also, in areas not ...
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Marielle Brunette, Robin Bourke, Marc Hanewinkel and Rasoul Yousefpour
We analyze economic perspectives of forest adaptation to risk attributes, caused mostly by climate change. We construct a database with 89 systematically chosen articles, dealing simultaneously with climate, adaptation, risk and economy. We classify the ...
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M. Talat Odman, Ran Huang, Aditya A. Pophale, Rushabh D. Sakhpara, Yongtao Hu, Armistead G. Russell and Michael E. Chang
Prescribed burning (PB) is practiced throughout the USA, most extensively in the southeast, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the ecosystem and reducing wildfire risk. However, PB emissions contribute significantly to trace gas and particulate...
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Nicole C. Inglis and Jelena Vukomanovic
Fire management in protected areas faces mounting obstacles as climate change alters disturbance regimes, resources are diverted to fighting wildfires, and more people live along the boundaries of parks. Evidence-based prescribed fire management and impr...
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Bruno Gianmarco Carrà, Giuseppe Bombino, Pietro Denisi, Pedro Antonio Plaza-Àlvarez, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja and Demetrio Antonio Zema
Prescribed fire is commonly used to reduce the wildfire risk in Mediterranean forests, but the soil?s hydrological response after fire is contrasting in literature experiences. The mulch treatment can limit the increases in runoff and erosion in the shor...
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David Cleland, Keith Reynolds, Robert Vaughan, Barbara Schrader, Harbin Li and Larry Laing
The terrestrial condition assessment (TCA) evaluates effects of uncharacteristic stressors and disturbance agents on land-type associations (LTAs) to identify restoration opportunities on national forest system (NFS) lands in the United States. A team of...
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S. Marques,J. Garcia-Gonzalo,B. Botequim,A. Ricardo,J.G. Borges,M. Tome,M.M. Oliveira
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Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) is an important conifer from the western Mediterranean Basin extending over 22%of the forest area in Portugal. In the last three decades nearly 4% of Maritime pine area has been burned by wildfires. Yetno wildfire occu...
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Fernando Castedo-Dorado,José Ramón Rodríguez-Pérez,José Luis Marcos-Menéndez,Mª Flor Álvarez-Taboada
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Spatial relationships between lightning-induced forest fires and topography, vegetation, climate and lightning characteristics were analyzed in the province of León (NW Spain). The study was based on reported lightning-induced forest fires in the period ...
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