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- Remote Sensing, Time Series, Fire Management, Seasonality

Resumo No Brasil, a combustibilidade da madeira e a insegurança diante de potenciais riscos relacionados a incêndios são consideradas restrições para a construção de edificações com sistemas estruturais em madeira. Essa situação é fruto do desconhecimento do comportamento da madeira em relação ao fogo. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma revisão bibliográfica abrangente sobre o comportamento da madeira a temperaturas elevadas, abordando assuntos relativos à degradação térmica, à taxa de carbonização e à influência da temperatura sobre as propriedades mecânicas da madeira. Essas informações podem contribuir para o aprimoramento de modelos numéricos sobre o comportamento termomecânico de estruturas de madeira em situação de incêndio, para a construção de edificações mais seguras e também para a eliminação do preconceito relativo ao uso desse material na construção civil.

- by Poliana Dias de Moraes
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- Engineering, Literature Review, High Temperature, Numerical Model
- by Sharon Gedye and +2
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- Geology, Image Analysis, Fire History, Forest fire
- by Marco Zitti
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- Geography, Socioeconomics, Principal Component Analysis, Environmental Management
- by Marco Zitti
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- Data Analysis, Time Series, Climate variability, Land Use Change
- by Anthony Westerling
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- Climate Change, Multidisciplinary, Wildfire, Climatic Change

Forest fires and burnt area in Portugal have been increasing in the last decades, contrarily to other southern European countries, although more resources are being allocated to prevention, detection and fire fighting. To minimize the probability of wildfires occurrence, it is crucial to assure the effectiveness of the prevention, vigilance and first attack operations. When fire prevention fails, fire fighting steps must be initiated, but this can only happen following detection. In Portugal the National Lookout Towers Network (NLTN) is the principal organized fire detection system, working together with some ground and aerial mobile units. However very few studies evaluated these systems effectiveness or contributed to know the lookout areas covered and which are the problematic areas not covered. In last years we characterized and evaluated the NLTN system in Portugal and produced several national cartography including visibility and vigilance priority maps. Using this cartography...

- by Teresa Santos
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- Cartography, Forest fire, Fire detection, Wildfire
- by lorena deleanu
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- Risk assessment, Industrial Application, Fire Risk, Risk Assessment
- by Jordi Garcia-gonzalo and +2
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- Forestry, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Climate Change

Fire of Haydarpaşa Train Station has showed us once more that we have a long way to go in the process of preparing our cultural heritage against disaster risks. Turning this unfortunate event into an opportunity for our heritage, actions to be taken before, during and after a disaster in order to reduce the vulnerability of historic buildings by means of analysing similar events that have occured in the World will be explained. Furthermore, some information will be given on the Guide for the Protection of Cultural Heritage during Rehabilitations, which is being prepared by a team of international experts. This initiation has been started straight after the Haydarpaşa Fire, by ICOMOS/ICORP- International Council of Monuments and Sites/ International Council of Risk Preparedness, Turkish Committee. Data on the situation of Haydarpaşa Train Station after the fire have been studied and used by the permission of the Directorate of İstanbul Vth Regional Council for Preservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage

- by Deniz F Gündoğdu and +2
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- Risk, Historic Buildings, Risk assessment, Vulnerability

... Keywords: Strawbale building, Construction, Risks, Moisture, Ecological impacts, Fire safety, Mould growth Introduction Straw has been used as a building material since prehistoric times, as a component of roofs; in structural walls;... more

- by Mark Bigland-Pritchard
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- Architecture, Building Construction, Building, Fire safety
- by Constantinos Siettos
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- Applied Mathematics, Cellular Automata, Forest fire, Wildfire
- by Paul Hessburg and +1
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- Time Use, Fire Management, Modelling, Multidisciplinary
- by Marta Yebra and +4
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- Air Quality, Remote Sensing, Human Factors, Wildland Fire
- by Ahmed Kashef
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- Materials Engineering, Fire, Risk assessment, Computer Model

This study assesses the fire safety risks associated with compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle systems, comprising primarily a typical school bus and supporting fuel infrastructure. The study determines the sensitivity of the results to... more

- by M. Modarres
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- Multidisciplinary, Risk Analysis, Natural Gas, Probabilistic Risk Assessment
- by Susan I. Stewart and +1
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- Geography, Forecasting, Fire History, Agriculture
- by Emilio Chuvieco and +1
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- Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing, Time Series, Biological Sciences
- by Jos Post
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- Human behavior, Fire safety, Fire Risk

Fires are one of the main factors for disturbances in Niassa Reserve-Mozambique, with economic and environmental impacts. There are cyclical records of fire occurrences across the reserve. However, studies on the main causative factors and identification of more susceptible locations are very limited. In this perspective, this study had as objectives: (1) determine the main significant factors for wildfire occurrences; (2) Map the probability of wildfire occurrences, using logistic regression. Independent variables included vegetation index (NDVI), climatic, topographic and socioeconomic data. The analysis period was from 2001 to 2015 and comprised the months with more occurrences of wildfire (May to December). According to the results, the main factors that determine the occurrence of fires were: NDVI, temperature, elevation, followed by precipitation, slope, relative humidity and human settlements. The spatial distribution of probability of fire occurrence reveals that zones with high and very high risk are located at the west and central west zones (areas with higher accumulation of dry biomass); medium risk zones are located in the centre of the reserve, while in central east and east zones the probability of fire occurrence is low and very low risk. Results showed that the expectation of wildfire ignition using logistic regression presented good precision (area under the curve 74%). ARTICLE HISTORY

- by Eufrasio Nhongo and +1
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- Wildland Fire, Forest fire, MODIS, Fire Risk

Mediterranean forests are regularly subjected to a large number of fires; 537 000 hectares were burned during the severe European drought of 1990. The French Ministries of Environment, Interior and Agriculture are trying to implement efficient methods to prevent forest fires and to reduce their incidence. Fire risk is composed of human, ecological and climatic factors that are already accounted

- by Alain Vidal
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- Earth Sciences, Forest fire, Biological Sciences, Crop Water Stress Index
- by David Mladenoff and +1
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- Landscape Ecology, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences
- by Hong He
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- Forest fire, Land Cover, Forest science, Population Density
- by Jaime Santos-reyes
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- Chemical Engineering, Oil and gas, System Approach, Fire safety
- by Kathleen Dwire
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- Forestry, Land management, Environmental Management, Environmental Monitoring
- by Miguel Galante
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- Forest fire, Land Cover, Population Density, Wildfire
- by Vittorio Marletto
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- Forest fire, Natural hazard, Real Time, Fire Risk
- by Klaus Itten
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- Remote Sensing, Forest fire, Imaging spectroscopy, Geomatic Engineering
- by Carmen Quintano
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- Stochastic Process, Remote Sensing, Time Series, Seasonality

- by Filipe X. Catry
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- Cartography, Forest fire, Fire detection, Wildfire
- by Bertram Ostendorf
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- Climate Change, Statistical Analysis, Land tenure, Fire Management
- by Maxim Shoshany
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- Applied Mathematics, Forestry, Behavior, Monte Carlo Simulation
- by Maxim Shoshany
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- Monte Carlo Simulation, Forest Ecology And Management, Fire Management, Forest fire
- by Teresa Brennan and +1
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- Forest Ecology And Management, Fire Management, Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences
- by Boris Pezzatti
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- Forest Ecology And Management, Fire History, Climate, Forest Ecology
- by Marta Yebra and +1
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- Geomatic Engineering, Radiative Transfer, Acoustic Radiative Transfer Model, Mediterranean region
- by Cameron Wright
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- Humans, Male, Fires, Clinical Sciences
- by Sarah Jovan
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- Climate Change, Environmental Management, Air pollution, Prescribed Fire
- by Frank Merry
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- Globalization, Carbon, Forest Fragmentation, Climate
- by Gina Cavan
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- Climate Change, Time Series, Carbon Dioxide, Biomass
- by Inmaculada Aguado
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- Wildland Fire, Fire Risk, Spatial resolution, Geographic Information System
- by Nikos Koutsias
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- Climate Change, Environmental policy, Land management, Environmental Management
- by Manuel Arbelo
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- Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Fire Management, Desertification
- by John Hatzopoulos
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- Ecology, Wildland Fire, Neural Network, Developing Country
- by Susan G . Conard
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- Fire Management, Fire Suppression, Wildland Urban Interface, Fire Risk
- by Ronaldo Soares
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- Forest fire, Thematic Maps, Wildfire, Santa Catarina
- by Nicolas Mansuy
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- Spatial Analysis, Forest Ecology And Management, Risk assessment, Forest fire
- by Emilio Chuvieco
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- Human Factors, Environmental Management, Multidisciplinary, Forest fire
- by Emilio Chuvieco and +1
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- Remote Sensing, Forest Ecology And Management, Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences
- by Bruce A Hungate
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- Multidisciplinary, Fire Risk