Development at the wildland-urban interface and the mitigation of forest-fire risk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 36, 2007, Pages 14272-14276

  Spyratos, Vassilis ^a   Bourgeron, Patrick S ^b   Ghil, Michael ^a,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire spread model; Percolation theory; Regime diagram; Regulatory policy; Threshold behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING; FIRE; FLAMMABILITY; FOREST; FOREST FIRE; HOUSING; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VEGETABLE; WILDLAND; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; FIRES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 35448971049     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704488104     Document Type: Article

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