Mapping regional patterns of large forest fires in Wildland-Urban Interface areas in Europe

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 172, Issue , 2016, Pages 112-126

  Modugno, Sirio ^a,b   Balzter, Heiko ^b   Cole, Beth ^b   Borrelli, Pasquale ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CORINE; Forest fire risk; Land use land cover change; Logistic regression; Spatial analysis; Wildland Urban Interface

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; LAND USE; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CORINE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FIRE RISKS; FOREST FIRE RISK; FOREST FIRES; FOREST FUEL; LAND-USE LAND-COVER CHANGES; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

FIRES;

FUEL;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MAPPING METHOD; PERIURBAN AREA; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSITION ZONE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FIRE; FOREST; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; URBAN AREA; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; ITALY; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CATALONIA; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; FRANCE; ITALY; MADRID [SPAIN]; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; SARDINIA; SPAIN;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FIRES; FORESTS; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROC CURVE; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84959018782     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.02.013     Document Type: Article

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