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People & Fire webGIS tool for wildfire risk assessment
Mileu, Nelson; Zêzere, José Luís; Bergonse, RafaelloPeople&Fire webGIS tool is an application for wildfire risk assessment, focused on obtaining simulating hazard and risk scenarios centred on land use transformation. This tool is a decisionsupport platform created in the context of a research project, which was dedicated to testing a new analytical framework for supporting the development and evaluation of new, integrated, and people-centred policy approaches t...
Differentiating fire regimes and their biophysical drivers in Central Portugal
Bergonse, Rafaello; Oliveira, Sandra; Zêzere, José; Moreira, Francisco; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Leal, Miguel; Santos, José Manuel LimaWe characterize fire regimes in central Portugal and investigate the degree to which the differences between regimes are influenced by a set of biophysical drivers. Using civil parishes as units of analysis, we employ three complementary parameters to describe the fire regime over a reference period of 44 years (1975–2018), namely cumulative percentage of parish area burned, Gini concentration index of burned a...
Promoting low-risk fire regimes: an agent-based model to explore wildfire mitig...
Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Moreira, Francisco; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Leal, Miguel; Oliveira, Sandra; Bergonse, Rafaello; Zêzere, JoséLandscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient. We propose a new framework to support the design of wildfire mitigation policies aimed at promoting low-risk fire regimes based on land use/land cover choices by lan...
Wildfire mitigation and adaptation: Two locally independent actions supported b...
Canadas, Maria João; Leal, Miguel; Soares, Filipa; Novais, Ana; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Schmidt, Luísa; Delicado, Ana; Moreira, FranciscoThere 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 this shift, we distinguish between prevention actions aimed at more fire-resilient landscapes and those focused on the protection of people, i.e., wildfire mitigation and adaptation (WM&A), respectively. With the goal of discussi...
Differentiating fire regimes and their biophysical drivers in central Portugal
Bergonse, Rafaello; Oliveira, Sandra; Zêzere, José Luís; Moreira, Francisco; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Leal, Miguel; Santos, José Manuel LimaWe characterize fire regimes in central Portugal and investigate the degree to which the differences between regimes are influenced by a set of biophysical drivers. Using civil parishes as units of analysis, we employ three complementary parameters to describe the fire regime over a reference period of 44 years (1975–2018), namely cumulative percentage of parish area burned, Gini concentration index of burned a...
Recent trends in fire regimes and associated territorial features in a fire-pro...
Moreira, Francisco; Leal, Miguel; Bergonse, Rafaello; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Oliveira, Sandra; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Zêzere, José LuísFire regimes in Mediterranean countries have been shifting in recent decades, including changes in wildfire size and frequency. We sought to describe changes in fire regimes across two periods (1975–1995 and 1996–2018) in a fire-prone region of central Portugal, explore the relationships between these regimes and territorial features, and check whether these associations persisted across periods. Two independen...
Promoting low-risk fire regimes: an agent-based model to explore wildfire mitig...
Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Moreira, Francisco; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Leal, Miguel; Oliveira, Sandra; Bergonse, Rafaello; Zêzere, José LuísLandscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient. We propose a new framework to support the design of wildfire mitigation policies aimed at promoting low-risk fire regimes based on land use/land cover choices by lan...
Wildfire mitigation and adaptation: Two locally independent actions supported b...
Canadas, Maria João; Leal, Miguel; Soares, Filipa; Novais, Ana; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Schmidt, Luísa; Delicado, Ana; Moreira, FranciscoThere 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 this shift, we distinguish between prevention actions aimed at more fire-resilient landscapes and those focused on the protection of people, i.e., wildfire mitigation and adaptation (WM&A), respectively. With the goal of discussi...
Recent trends in fire regimes and associated territorial features in a fire-pro...
Moreira, Francisco; Leal, Miguel; Bergonse, Rafaello; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Oliveira, Sandra; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Zêzere, JoséFire regimes in Mediterranean countries have been shifting in recent decades, including changes in wildfire size and frequency. We sought to describe changes in fire regimes across two periods (1975–1995 and 1996–2018) in a fire-prone region of central Portugal, explore the relationships between these regimes and territorial features, and check whether these associations persisted across periods. Two independen...
Risco de incêndio florestal: características, perceções e medidas necessárias
Soares, Filipa Ferreira; Schmidt, Luísa; Delicado, Ana; Bergonse, Rafaello; Zêzere, José; Oliveira, Sandra; Policarpo, VerónicaO projeto de investigação ‘Pessoas e Fogo’ visou desenvolver e testar um quadro analítico de apoio à avaliação e promoção de políticas de gestão florestal e de desenvolvimento territorial que, centradas nas pessoas, levem à redução do risco de incêndio rural-florestal, no Pinhal Interior. Até recentemente tem sido dada prioridade ao combate direto aos incêndios ativos. A sua prevenção, através da gestão de comb...