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Wildfire communication from municipalities to communities in Portugal: An explo...

Enhancing preparedness that enables people and communities to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impacts of a wildfire requires interactive communication. The purpose of this research is to understand how municipalities are communicating with communities regarding wildfires. Municipalities represent the lowest level of governance in Portugal and their responsibility for wildfire risk commu...

The 2017 extreme wildfires events in Portugal through the perceptions of volunt...

This study aimed to explore differences in the perceptions of professional and voluntary firefighters regarding the extreme wildfire events that occurred in Portugal in 2017. We collected a sample of 185 participants, professional and voluntary firefighters, who directly participated in suppression activities for the Pedrógão Grande and October 2017 wildfires in Portugal. They were on duty in 149 fire stations ...

Limitations and opportunities of spatial planning to enhance wildfire risk redu...

Limitations and opportunities of spatial planning to enhance wildfire risk redu...

Experiences of "safe village" and "safe people" programs to enhance wildfire ri...

Experiences of "Safe Village, Safe People", a program to enhance wildfire risk ...

Forest fire causes and motivations in the Southern and South-Eastern Europe thr...

Forest fires causes and motivations are poorly understood in southern and south-eastern Europe. This research aims to identify how experts perceive the different causes of forest fires as defined in the classification proposed by the European Commission in 2013. A panel of experts (N = 271) was gathered from the EU Southern Member States (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) and from Central (Switzerland...

Incêndios extremos em Portugal e na Grécia: reflexões sobre a importância da pr...

Extreme wildfires in Portugal and Greece: reflection on the importance of preparedness and risk and crisis communication. From the analysis of the extreme fires of 2017 in Portugal, and 2018 in Greece that turned into disasters, a reflection is made on the influence of communication and preparedness on risk reduction. In the preparedness process people should anticipate what might occur, what they need to do to...

The dilemma of wildfire definition: what it reveals and what it implies

This paper presents the results of an explorative survey, based on a questionnaire sent by email, about how wildfire experts, operating in different countries, perceive wildfire and express their mindset by defining "wildfire" from a list of 14 terms and how they justify their preference for the term selected as the most important. Using a five-point Likert Scale, results from 221 valid replies indicate a gener...

Evidences about causes of wildfires in the Northern Region of Portugal = As cau...

This paper reports the results of an analysis of the causes of wildfires in the NorthernRegion of Portugal for the period 2012-2014. Data were analysed using descriptivestatistics, GIS, cluster analysis and kernel density estimation. Analysis shows that themajority of wildfires have unknown causes, followed by those caused by negligenceand those started deliberately. This research showed that the Northern Regio...