Review of micro-and small-scale technologies to produce electricity and heat from Mediterranean forests׳ wood chips

A González, JR Riba, R Puig, P Navarro - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the current energy conjunction, with an expected growth of energy consumption in a
context of fossil fuel depletion, more focus is being placed on renewable energy sources …

Forest fire induced Natech risk assessment: A survey of geospatial technologies

M Naderpour, HM Rizeei, N Khakzad… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Forest fires threaten a large part of the world's forests, communities, and industrial plants,
triggering technological accidents (Natechs). Forest fire modelling with respect to …

Integrating geospatial information into fire risk assessment

E Chuvieco, I Aguado, S Jurdao… - … journal of wildland …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Fire risk assessment should take into account the most relevant components associated to
fire occurrence. To estimate when and where the fire will produce undesired effects, we …

Towards an integrated approach to wildfire risk assessment: when, where, what and how may the landscapes burn

E Chuvieco, M Yebra, S Martino, K Thonicke… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of concepts related to wildfire risk assessment, including the
determination of fire ignition and propagation (fire danger), the extent to which fire may …

Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards

J Lecina‐Diaz, J Martínez‐Vilalta… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires, drought, insect outbreaks, and windstorms are altering the forest‐associated
ecosystem services that are essential for human well‐being, and the impacts of such events …

Farmland abandonment decreases the fire regulation capacity and the fire protection ecosystem service in mountain landscapes

 Sil, PM Fernandes, AP Rodrigues, JM Alonso… - Ecosystem Services, 2019 - Elsevier
This study explored and applied the concepts of Fire Regulation Capacity (FRC) and Fire
Protection Ecosystem Service (FPES) in the assessment of the effects of landscape change …

Burn severity influence on post-fire vegetation cover resilience from Landsat MESMA fraction images time series in Mediterranean forest ecosystems

A Fernandez-Manso, C Quintano… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Mediterranean ecosystems are adapted to recurrent forest fires by having regeneration
mechanisms that overcome the immediate effects of fire. However, the increasing frequency …

A comprehensive spatial-temporal analysis of driving factors of human-caused wildfires in Spain using Geographically Weighted Logistic Regression

M Rodrigues, A Jiménez-Ruano, D Peña-Angulo… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, authorities responsible on forest fire have encouraged research on
fire triggering factors, recognizing this as a critical point to achieve a greater understanding …

Historical seasonal changes in prescribed burn windows in California

JA Baijnath-Rodino, S Li, A Martinez, M Kumar… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Prescribed (Rx) burns are conducted on days when the meteorological thresholds of
maximum air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speeds are all met (burn window) in …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal energy community-based multi-dimensional business model framework and critical success factors investigation in the mediterranean region of the …

A González, P Arranz-Piera, B Olives, A Ivancic… - Technology in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rural areas have gained relevance in the EU policy framework as a result of the
experienced depopulation trend experienced in these areas. Smart Rural Communities are …