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Sifiso Xulu, Nkanyiso Mbatha and Kabir Peerbhay
Planted forests in South Africa have been affected by an increasing number of economically damaging fires over the past four decades. They constitute a major threat to the forestry industry and account for over 80% of the country?s commercial timber loss...
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Jagpal Singh Tomar, Nikola Kranjcic, Bojan Ðurin, Shruti Kanga and Suraj Kumar Singh
The Himachal Pradesh district?s biggest natural disaster is the forest fire. Forest fire threat evaluation, model construction, and forest management using geographic information system techniques will be important in this proposed report. A simulation w...
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Nikolaos Depountis, Maria Michalopoulou, Katerina Kavoura, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos and Nikolaos Sabatakakis
In recent decades, wildfires have become a serious threat worldwide, producing disasters in the natural and anthropogenic environment as well as serious economic losses. One of wildfire?s major impacts is soil erosion, as it may cause major problems in b...
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Nikola Vucic, Mario Mader, Doris Pivac, Miodrag Roic and Josip Kri?anovic
During the summer period, fire hazards represent an especially real threat not only for vegetation and animals, but also for material resources and human lives. In the Republic of Croatia, the most affected areas are those in the coastal region, which ar...
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Wildfires have always been a threat to forests and areas of high combustible vegetation. When they are not kept under control, they can spread to residential areas, creating severe damage and destruction. This paper examines the effects of the extreme he...
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Mario Elia, Raffaella Lovreglio, Nicola A. Ranieri, Giovanni Sanesi and Raffaele Lafortezza
One of the most important environmental issues in Europe is the expansion of wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) and how this trend may affect the occurrence of wildfires. Land use changes, the abandonment of farmland, and reduced grazing has led to an incr...
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Robert W. Gray
We have an increasing wildfire risk to communities of the province that is not being effectively addressed by the current hazard reduction program. Existing planning and remediation efforts are a small fraction of what is required given the march of clim...
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