Forest fires and adaptation options in Europe

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-30

  Khabarov, Nikolay ^a   Krasovskii, Andrey ^a   Obersteiner, Michael ^a   Swart, Rob ^b   Dosio, Alessandro ^c   San Miguel Ayanz, Jesús ^c   Durrant, Tracy ^c   Camia, Andrea ^c   Migliavacca, Mirco ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Europe; Forest fires

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953224557     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0621-0     Document Type: Article

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