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Assessment of forest fire severity for a management conceptual model: case stud...

Wildfires are affecting natural ecosystems worldwide, causing economic and human losses and exacerbated by climate change. Models of fire severity and fire susceptibility are crucial tools for fire monitoring. This case study analyses a fire event on 3 September 2019 in Vilcabamba parish, Loja province, Ecuador. This article aims to assess the severity and susceptibility of a fire through spectral indices and m...

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 development and use of Community Engagement Theory to inform readiness inte...

Readiness or preparedness can help reduce the risk posed by future hazard events and allow for effective post-event response and recovery. Given the importance of readiness, a key question is, "How can readiness be facilitated?". Community Engagement Theory (CET), developed from over 20 years of research in and across several countries, can contribute to offering answers to this question. The theory suggests th...

"To Leave Something (meaningful) Behind: Honouring the Late Professor Douglas P...

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 ...

Contributo dos Websigs na Redução do Risco de Incêndio a Nível Local: O Exemplo...

Bridging knowledge gaps on the role of spatial planning in wildfire risk reduct...

Background. This paper identifies the weaknesses of the Portuguese approach to promote wildfire risk reduction through spatial planning. Aims. This paper contributes to bridging a critical gap in knowledge on the role of spatial planning in the reduction of wildfire hazard, given that the characteristics of fire hazard are distinctive from other natural hazards. Methods. Firstly, we used an online questionnaire...

Construção do plano de ação pela campanha Construindo Cidades Resilientes

The United Nations' Making Cities Resilient campaign aims to reduce risks and disasters at the local level and has more than 800 participating cities worldwide. The objective is to present strategies for the Action Plan development in Brazil. The methodology is based on the experiences of Lisbon, pilot city in Portugal. In Brazil, the study is applied in União da Vitória, a municipality with frequent floods in ...

Improving wildfire preparedness: lessons from a school radio educational program

Understanding building resistance to wildfires: a multi-factor approach

In terms of researching fire-related structure loss, various factors can affect structure survival during a wildfire. This paper aims to assess which factors were determinants in house resistance in the specific context of a case study of an extreme wildfire in the Central Region of Portugal and therefore which factors should be taken into account in the definition of a municipal mitigation strategy to defend b...