|
|
|
|
|
Hélder D. Craveiro, Cesare Fiorini, Luís Laím, Bruno Guillaume and Aldina Santiago
Contributing to the development of an innovative performance-based design approach for enhancing the safety and resilience of the built environment in the wildland?urban interface (WUI).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gabriela Azócar de la Cruz, Gabriela Alfaro, Claudia Alonso, Rubén Calvo and Paz Orellana
Wildland fires are a phenomenon of broad interest due to their relationship with climate change. The impacts of climate change are related to a greater frequency and intensity of wildland fires. In this context, megafires have become a phenomenon of part...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Andrea Zambrano-Ballesteros, Sabina Florina Nanu, José Tomás Navarro-Carrión and Alfredo Ramón-Morte
Official information on Land Use Land Cover is essential for mapping wildland?urban interface (WUI) zones. However, these resources do not always provide the geometrical or thematic accuracy required to delimit buildings that are easily exposed to risk o...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dominik Kaim, Volker C. Radeloff, Marcin Szwagrzyk, Monika Dobosz and Krzysztof Ostafin
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Robert W. Gray
We have an increasing wildfire risk to communities of the province that is not being effectively addressed by the current hazard reduction program. Existing planning and remediation efforts are a small fraction of what is required given the march of clim...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nikolay Viktorovich Baranovskiy, Aleksey Podorovskiy and Aleksey Malinin
Forest fires have a negative impact on the economy in a number of regions, especially in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas. An important link in the fight against fires in WUI areas is the development of information and computer systems for predicting...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Maria-Monika Metallinou and Torgrim Log
General fire risk and the special risk related to cold climate cellulosic drying processes are outlined. Four recent subzero temperatures fires are studied with respect to health impacts: a wooden village fire, a single wood structure fire, a wildland ur...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Elsa Varela,Mario Soliño
Pág. e026
Aim of study: This article describes and analyzes the links between the fire-based scientific knowledge, the social perception of fire prevention and forest fires and the economic valuation requirements to assess social preferences for fire prevention me...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|