The timing of vegetation fire occurrence in a human landscape

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-52

  Plucinski, M P ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accidental ignitions; Deliberate ignitions; Fire danger; Temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

FUELS; IGNITION; VEGETATION;

ACCIDENTAL IGNITION; DAMAGE PROPERTIES; DELIBERATE IGNITION; FIRE DANGER; FIRE FUELS; FIRE OCCURRENCES; SUPPRESSION COST; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION FIRE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

FIRES;

EID: 84901979019     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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