Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat

J McLennan, B Ryan, C Bearman, K Toh - Fire technology, 2019 - Springer
Wildfires pose a serious threat to life in many countries. For police, fire and emergency
services authorities in most jurisdictions in North America and Australia evacuation is now …

Summary of workshop large outdoor fires and the built environment

SL Manzello, R Blanchi, MJ Gollner, D Gorham… - Fire safety journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into
communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed …

Analysis of forest fire fatalities in southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Greece and Sardinia (Italy)

DM Molina-Terrén, G Xanthopoulos… - … journal of wildland …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildfire fatalities remain a significant problem in Mediterranean Europe. Although there is a
strong inter-annual variability with regard to their number, repeated tragic accidents remind …

Empowering strategic decision-making for wildfire management: avoiding the fear trap and creating a resilient landscape

M Castellnou, N Prat-Guitart, E Arilla, A Larrañaga… - Fire ecology, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, fire services in Mediterranean Europe have been overwhelmed by extreme
wildfire behavior. As a consequence, fire management has moved to defensive strategies …

Assessment of k-nearest neighbor and random forest classifiers for map** forest fire areas in central portugal using landsat-8, sentinel-2, and terra imagery

AP Pacheco, JAS Junior, AM Ruiz-Armenteros… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest fires threaten the population's health, biomass, and biodiversity, intensifying the
desertification processes and causing temporary damage to conservation areas. Remote …

[HTML][HTML] Meteorological conditions conducive to the rapid spread of the deadly wildfire in eastern Attica, Greece

K Lagouvardos, V Kotroni… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Meteorological Conditions Conducive to the Rapid Spread of the Deadly Wildfire in Eastern
Attica, Greece in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 100 Issue 11 (2019) …

Public perception of flood risk in flash flood prone areas of Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Attica Region in Greece

M Diakakis, G Priskos, M Skordoulis - International journal of disaster risk …, 2018 - Elsevier
Even though flooding is one of the most destructive natural hazards in the Mediterranean,
causing hundreds of deaths and economic losses and despite the significant efforts of civil …

Evaluation of forest fire risk based on multicriteria decision analysis techniques for Changzhou, China

W Ju, Z **ng, J Wu, Q Kang - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of China's economy, an increasing number of cities are building
forest parks or landscape forests to improve the quality of people's lives and protect the …

An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951–2018

X Zong, X Tian, Q Yao, PM Brown - International journal of …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
The frequent occurrence of fatalities from wildfires is an ongoing problem in China, even
though great improvements have been achieved in overall wildfire management in recent …