Post-wildfire soil erosion in the Mediterranean: Review and future research directions

RA Shakesby - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Wildfires increased dramatically in frequency and extent in the European Mediterranean
region from the 1960s, aided by a general warming and drying trend, but driven primarily by …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding future changes to fires in southern Europe and their impacts on the wildland-urban interface

A Ganteaume, R Barbero, M Jappiot, E Maillé - Journal of safety science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Southern Europe is a highly fire-prone region where extreme fires have often disastrous
consequences on both structures and people. Human activities and fire weather conditions …

Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: the entanglement of California's housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change

M Greenberg, H Angelo, E Losada… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
One of California's most pressing social and environmental challenges is the rapid
expansion of the wildlands–urban interface (WUI). Multiple issues associated with WUI …

Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States

CI Roos, TW Swetnam, TJ Ferguson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–
urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it …

Trends in global wildfire potential in a changing climate

Y Liu, J Stanturf, S Goodrick - Forest ecology and management, 2010 - Elsevier
The trend in global wildfire potential under the climate change due to the greenhouse effect
is investigated. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which …

Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface: Key concepts and evaluation methodologies

A Bento-Gonçalves, A Vieira - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, the different issues regarding the expansion of the wildland-urban
interface (WUI)-particularly those related to fires-have spread around the world with …

[KİTAP][B] Wicked environmental problems: managing uncertainty and conflict

PJ Balint - 2011 - books.google.com
" Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and
compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to …

High wildfire damage in interface communities in California

HA Kramer, MH Mockrin, PM Alexandre… - … journal of wildland …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Globally, and in the US, wildfires pose increasing risk to people and their homes. Wildfire
management assumes that buildings burn primarily in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) …

Review of pathways for building fire spread in the wildland urban interface part I: exposure conditions

SE Caton, RSP Hakes, DJ Gorham, A Zhou, MJ Gollner - Fire technology, 2017 - Springer
While the wildland–urban interface (WUI) is not a new concept, fires in WUI communities
have rapidly expanded in frequency and severity over the past few decades. The number of …

[HTML][HTML] Map** regional patterns of large forest fires in Wildland–Urban Interface areas in Europe

S Modugno, H Balzter, B Cole, P Borrelli - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Over recent decades, Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) trends in many regions
of Europe have reconfigured the landscape structures around many urban areas. In these …