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 …

A fact often overlooked is that large-scale wildfires, although occurring infrequently, are
responsible for the overwhelming majority of fire-related suppression costs, economic …

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 …

The goal of this work is to evaluate by a modeling approach the effectiveness of alternative
fuel treatment strategies to reduce potential losses from wildfires in Mediterranean areas …

A critical review of the mechanisms that are described in the literature to explain the onset
and development of eruption or blow up in forest fires is presented, given their great …

The crisis in traditional forest and farming activities that began in the second half of the 20th
century has given way to a new territorial structure, characterised by greater forest density …

A Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS) tightly integrates computer systems with the
physical world and human activities. In this article, a three-level CPSS for early fire detection …

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 …

The use of spatially explicit fire spread models to assess fire propagation and behaviour has
several applications for fire management and research. We used the FARSITE simulator to …

Surface fire is the most prevalent type of wildland fire and dominates the cost of wildland
firefighting. The high-intensity burning behaviors in surface fires stem from the significant …