Over the last decades, the different issues regarding the expansion of the wildland-urban
interface (WUI)-particularly those related to fires-have spread around the world with …

Every year, more than 50,000 wildland fires affect about 500,000 ha of vegetation in
southern European countries, particularly in wildland-urban interfaces (WUI). This paper …

Forest fire management practices are highly dependent on the proper monitoring of the
spatial distribution of the natural and man-made fuel complexes at landscape level. Spatial …

In Portugal, the rapid growth in housing in and near wildland–urban interfaces (WUIs)
increases the wildfire risk to lives and structures. The goal of our study was to assess wildfire …

This paper presents the main results and conclusions of a two-year study funded by the
Spanish Ministry of Environment, Directorate General for Biodiversity, for the identification …

Abstract In Portuguese case study, were considered two hazards with very different
characteristics. Coastal erosion is mainly triggered by storms events. Coastal erosion is …

Introducción a la ecología del fuego. Susceptibilidad de las coberturas vegetales de
Colombia al fuego. Los incendios de la cobertura vegetal en Colombia y su relación con la …

In Portugal, the rapid growth in housing in and near wildland–urban interfaces (WUIs)
increases the wildfire risk to lives and structures. The goal of our study was to assess wildfire …

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is a broadly used term in the context of wild-and forest
fires (Stewart et al. 2007) for indicating areas where houses and other human infrastructures …

Los incendios forestales suponen un desafío formidable a nuestra sociedad. A pesar de
todo nuestro desarrollo tecnológico nos enfrentamos a un problema de magnitud global que …