Key message Wildfire danger and burnt areas should increase over the century in southern
Europe, owing to climate warming. Fire-prone area expansion to the north and to …

Applying artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data to natural resource
management (NRM) is revolutionizing how natural resources are managed. To gain more …

In recent years, forest fires have increased in terms of frequency, extent and intensity,
especially in Mediterranean countries. Climate characteristics and anthropogenic …

Dispersed urbanization has expanded into rural land worldwide. The present work focused
on the Athens' metropolitan area, the capital of Greece, discussing the potential role of a …

Southern European countries rely largely on fire suppression and ignition prevention to
manage a growing wildfire problem. We explored a more wholistic, long-term approach …

The development of comprehensive fire management and risk assessment strategies is of
prominent concern in Southern Europe, due to the expanding scale of wildfire risk. In this …

Even though wildfires constitute a natural phenomenon, fires of high intensity may provoke
profound ecological and socioeconomic implications. Primary aim of the paper constitutes …

Wildfires are a major threat to people and property in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
communities worldwide, but while the patterns of the WUI in North America, Europe and …

In this study a comparative assessment of the impacts of urbanization and of forest fires as
well as their combined effect on runoff response is investigated using earth observation and …

We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-
prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to …