Forest fires dynamics in Portugal in the last four decades are presented (the fire regime and the corresponding losses) as well as the corresponding socioeconomic, environmental and policy drivers. The 20th century and on-going changes in land use (afforestation and rural abandonment) and climate ...
During the devastating forest fires in Portugal the local authorities requested the support of the “International Charter on Space on Major Disasters” to get an overview of the fast changing fire locations. According to the Portuguese civil protection authorities, there were hundreds of forest fires...
Some 523 wild fires flared up on Sunday in Portugal, with the majority and worst of them located in the north and center of the country. According to the European Forest Fire Information System, 64,000 hectares burned, pushing the country's total area ravaged by wild fires in 2017 to 316...
In the last decade, forest res have become one of the worst natural disasters in Portugal, causing great forest devastation, leading to both economic and environmental losses and putting at risk populations and the livelihoods of the forest itself. In this paper we present Bayesian hierarchical mod...
LISBON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Portugal has seen the most of the forest fires in a single day of this year on Saturday with 297 fire breakouts across the country, according to the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC). More than 70 fires broke out at three o'clock on Saturday in se...
LISBON, July 16 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter combating forest fire in Alijo, Vila Real district in northern Portugal crashed Sunday afternoon but the pilot was well, Portuguese Lusa News Agency reported. Alvaro Ribeiro, district commander for relief operations in Vila Real, some 400 km northeast of...
Although there are other possible causes for fires in general such as natural hazards, improper use of fire or accidental structural problems, intentional forest fires poses a serious problem and represents 13 to 20% of the causes of firesetting [1,2]. The incendiarism behavior can be defined...
The number of people killed in the forest fires raging in central Portugal has risen to 62, with 54 others injured, State Secretary of Internal Affairs Ministry Jorge Gomes said Sunday.
This paper makes a multidisciplinary survey of the problem of burned cork oak stands focusing on: the dimensions of the problem in Portugal, the remarkable resistance of cork oak to fire, the post‐fire management of cork oak stands, and the economic and ecological effects of fire in cork ...
Portugal, like most southern European countries, is prone toforestfires in the dry summer months. — Armando Franca,The Denver Post, 18 June 2017 Buhl said impacts toforesthealth are taking out roughly as many trees as wildfires, which are also now more likely and more intense by climate cha...