Key message Wildfire danger and burnt areas should increase over the century in southern
Europe, owing to climate warming. Fire-prone area expansion to the north and to …

Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia,
raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic …

The observed trend towards warmer and drier conditions in southern Europe is projected to
continue in the next decades, possibly leading to increased risk of large fires. However, an …

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the evolution and regional distribution of both
forest fire ignitions and burnt areas in mainland Portugal and to identify the relationship …

Summer fires frequently rage across Mediterranean Europe, often intensified by high
temperatures and droughts. According to the state-of-the-art regional fire risk projections, in …

Extreme fire events, also referred to as “megafires,” are not uncommon events on a global
scale; they tend to happen a steady frequency in different parts of the world, although, at a …

Introduction This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution
of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate …

This paper proposes a strategy for managing wildfire risks and preventing blackouts using
microgrids. To demonstrate this approach, not seen in previous literature, we use the power …

The assumption that increased wildfire incidence in the Mediterranean Basin during the last
decades is an outcome of changes in land use warrants an objective analysis. In this study …

The impacts of climate change on forest fires have received increased attention in recent
years at both continental and local scales. It is widely recognized that weather plays a key …