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Territories in change and the fires in wildland urban interface. Case study in Baião
| Resumo: | The presence of the human element, in work situations or leisure, always carries risks. Portugal, geographically integrated in the Mediterranean basin, has favourable characteristics to the outbreak of forest fires especially in the summer. Although not a recent phenomenon, the forest fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) have gained notoriety because its damages are increasing as a result of expansion of areas with such characteristics. Presently, there are in the rural mountain regions of northwestern Portugal some territorial dynamics, demographic and social changes, result in a scenario that aggravated the occurrence of wildfires in the WUI. |
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| Autores principais: | Fidalgo, Emanuel Sardo |
| Assunto: | Interface habitat-forêt Risque Vulnérabilité Résilience Interface urbano-florestal Risco Vulnerabilidade Resiliência Wildland-urban interface Risk Vulnerability Resilience |
| Ano: | 2012 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Instituição associada: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Cadernos de Geografia |
| Resumo: | The presence of the human element, in work situations or leisure, always carries risks. Portugal, geographically integrated in the Mediterranean basin, has favourable characteristics to the outbreak of forest fires especially in the summer. Although not a recent phenomenon, the forest fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) have gained notoriety because its damages are increasing as a result of expansion of areas with such characteristics. Presently, there are in the rural mountain regions of northwestern Portugal some territorial dynamics, demographic and social changes, result in a scenario that aggravated the occurrence of wildfires in the WUI. |
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