Calviño-Cancela, María, Chas-Amil, Maria Luisa and Touza, Julia M. orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-1789 (2014) Assessment of fire risk in relation to land cover in WUI areas. In: Viegas, Domingos Xavier, (ed.) Advances in forest fire research. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra , pp. 657-664.
Abstract
Areas where urban and wildland intermingle, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI), are increasing worldwide over the last decades (Theobald and Romme 2007; Montiel and Herrero 2010). These WUI areas are of particular concern in forest fire risk management because the presence of housing developments in contact with forestlands increases the likelihood of a fire starting as a consequence of human activities. In Spain, for example, there is increasing evidence that the wildland-urban interface constitutes a highly risk prone area (Herrero et al. 2012; Chas-Amil et al. 2013). Given the recognised role of land cover distribution in fire risk (Bajocco and Ricotta 2008; Oliveira et al. 2013), this paper evaluates recent fire activity across different land cover categories, and the causes and motivations, comparing WUI and non-WUI areas. Fire data were collected in Galicia, Spain, where fires are mostly due to deliberately-caused ignitions. We show that arsonist are more likely to ignited a fire in WUI areas than in non-WUI; and the same seems to be true for fires ignited by agricultural activities. Moreover, land cover types only have a significant impact on the patterns of fire occurrence in WUI areas.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | fire hazard, land-use cover, wildland-urban interface, intentional-caused fires |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) > York Environmental Sustainability Institute |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2016 09:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 10:43 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-0884-6 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra |
Identification Number: | 10.14195/978-989-26-0884-6 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97945 |
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