Assessing Landscape Scale Wildfire Exposure for Highly Valued Resources in a Mediterranean Area

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1200-1216

  Alcasena, Fermín J ^a,b   Salis, Michele ^b,c   Ager, Alan A ^d   Arca, Bachisio ^e   Molina, Domingo ^a   Spano, Donatella ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fire exposure; Fire risk; Highly valued resources and assets; Mediterranean areas; MTT algorithm

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; METEOROLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL TIME;

FIRE EXPOSURES; FIRE RISKS; FIRE-RISK MANAGEMENT; HIGHLY VALUED RESOURCES AND ASSETS; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; RISK ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

FIRES;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; HUMAN; ITALY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; WEATHER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FIRES; HUMANS; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; WEATHER;

EID: 84939938512     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0448-6     Document Type: Article

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