[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 …

Amphibian ecology and conservation in the urbanising world: a review

AJ Hamer, MJ McDonnell - Biological conservation, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Urbanisation currently threatens over one-third of the world's known amphibian species. The
main threats of urbanisation to amphibian populations are habitat loss, habitat fragmentation …

The urban heat island and thermal heat stress correlate with climate dynamics and energy budget variations in multiple urban environments

NSM Harmay, M Choi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Rising temperatures that occur in cities resulted in the urban heat island (UHI) which could
also amplify the thermal heat stress, leading to climate-related human mortality. Our study …

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 …

A review of the relationships between human population density and biodiversity

GW Luck - Biological Reviews, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
To explore the impacts of increasing human numbers on nature, many studies have
examined relationships between human population density (HPD) and biodiversity change …

Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value

VC Radeloff, SI Stewart, TJ Hawbaker… - Proceedings of the …, 2010‏ - National Acad Sciences
Protected areas are crucial for biodiversity conservation because they provide safe havens
for species threatened by land-use change and resulting habitat loss. However, protected …

[كتاب][B] The wrath of capital: Neoliberalism and climate change politics

A Parr - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century,
global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead …

Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: An international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration

JB Abrams, H Gosnell, NJ Gill… - Conservation and …, 2012‏ - journals.lww.com
The term 'amenity migration'describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to
rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature …

[كتاب][B] Remote sensing for ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques

N Horning, JA Robinson, EJ Sterling, W Turner… - 2010‏ - books.google.com
The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a
discipline concerned with map** and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote …

Homogenization of northern US Great Lakes forests due to land use

LA Schulte, DJ Mladenoff, TR Crow, LC Merrick… - Landscape …, 2007‏ - Springer
Human land use of forested regions has intensified worldwide in recent decades,
threatening long-term sustainability. Primary effects include conversion of land cover or …