Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

Wildfires occur worldwide and affect different territories in diverse ways. New challenges in
wildfire management are emerging, fueled by climatic, land cover, and sociodemographic …

In recent years, fire services in Mediterranean Europe have been overwhelmed by extreme
wildfire behavior. As a consequence, fire management has moved to defensive strategies …

Southern European countries rely largely on fire suppression and ignition prevention to
manage a growing wildfire problem. We explored a more wholistic, long-term approach …

The development of comprehensive fire management and risk assessment strategies is of
prominent concern in Southern Europe, due to the expanding scale of wildfire risk. In this …

This paper examines the issue of radionuclide resuspension from wildland fires in areas
contaminated by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion in 1986. This work …

There is a broad consensus in the academic and policy communities over the need to shift
the focus from fire suppression to fire prevention. To inform policies that effectively promote …

Predicting wildfire disasters presents a major challenge to the field of risk science, especially
when fires propagate long distances through diverse fuel types and complex terrain. A good …

A key challenge in the United States is how to manage wildfire risk across boundaries and
scales, as roles, responsibilities, and ability to act are distributed among actors in ways that …

In Mediterranean agropastoral areas, land abandonment is a key driver of wildfire risk as
fuel load and continuity increase. To gain insights into the potential impacts of land …