Perceptions of forest experts on climate change and fire management in European Mediterranean forests

IForest

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-41

  Raftoyannis, Yannis ^a   Nocentini, Susanna ^b   Marchi, Enrico ^b   Sainz, Rafael Calama ^c   Guemes, Carlos Garcia ^d   Pilas, Ivan ^e   Peric, Sanja ^e   Paulo, Joana Amaral ^f   Moreira Marcelino, Ana Cristina ^g   Costa Ferreira, Maria ^h   Kakouris, Erodotos ⁱ   Lindner, Marcus ^j  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^d Servicio de Programas de Salud y Prevención de la Dirección Técnica de Recursos Humanos y Gestión de Centros Gerencia de Servicios Sociales   (Spain)

^e CROATIAN FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^f INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^g Estacao Agronomica Nacional   (Portugal)

^h INRB   (Portugal)

ⁱ Cyprus Department of Forests   (Cyprus)

^j EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Adaptive Management; Climate Change; Forest Fires; Mediterranean; Perceptions; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891848808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0817-006     Document Type: Article

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