The increasing extent of wildfires has prompted investigation into alternative fire
management approaches to complement the traditional strategies of fire suppression and …

Land use change, in the form of urbanization, is one of the most significant forms of global
change, and most cities are experiencing a rapid increase in population and infrastructure …

Recent data show that fire concentration is becoming rather predominant in Southern
European areas. Specifically, 2017–2018 were some of the worst years on record for fires in …

This paper examines both positivist and constructivist approaches to vandalism prevention
in tourism. It proposes a framework, consistent with the constructivist paradigm, for reducing …

Objectives: To investigate the characteristics of spatial and temporal patterning of arson
incidents in a large urban county. Methods: Using multiyear geocoded crime data from the …

Humans cause more than 55% of wildfires on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service
and US Department of the Interior, contributing to both suppression expenditures and …

Most of the literature on fires focuses on the wild or rural environment. Nevertheless, urban
fires, and in particular those related to criminal activity, have recently begun to receive …

Property abandonment and lot vacancy are issues of growing importance given widespread
demographic and economic changes in urban areas in the USA. This paper explores these …

Municipal fire departments responded to approximately 53,000 intentionally-set fires
annually from 2003 to 2007, according to National Fire Protection Association figures. A …

Research to date has not examined how the impacts of arrests manifest across space and
time in environmental crimes. We evaluate whether arrests reduce or merely …