From leaves to landscape: A multiscale approach to assess fire hazard in wildland-urban interface areas

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 183, Issue , 2016, Pages 925-937

  Ghermandi, Luciana ^a   Beletzky, Natacha A ^b   de Torres Curth, Mónica I ^a,b   Oddi, Facundo J ^c  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente Bariloche   (Argentina)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO NEGRO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fire hazard; Flammability; Patagonia; WUI areas

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FIRES; LAND USE; URBAN PLANNING;

FIRE HAZARD ASSESSMENTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; OVERLAPPING ZONES; PATAGONIA; PROPERTY; SPATIAL SCALE; WILDLAND; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE AREA;

FIRE HAZARDS;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LEAF AREA; NATURAL HAZARD; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

CITY PLANNING; FLAMMABILITY; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES; ARGENTINA; CHEMISTRY; CITY; DISASTER; FIRE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBANIZATION;

PATAGONIA;

NOTHOFAGUS DOMBEYI;

ARGENTINA; CITIES; DISASTERS; FIRES; FORESTS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT LEAVES; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84992428193     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.09.051     Document Type: Article

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