Addressing wildfire risk in a landscape-level scheduling model: An application in Portugal

Forest Science

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 266-277

  Ferreira, Liliana ^a   Constantino, Miguel F ^b   Borges, José G ^c   Garcia Gonzalo, Jordi ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Forest management scheduling; Mixed integer programming; Wildfire risk

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS;

DAMAGE PROBABILITY; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; MANAGEMENT OPTIONS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP); SCHEDULING MODELS; WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT; WILDFIRE RISKS;

SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMING; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHEDULING; THINNINGS;

EID: 84926316907     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.13-104     Document Type: Article

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