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In the context of climate change, we are witnessing a significant increase in extreme fires globally, which is evident in size, duration, intensity, and impact. In Portugal, the year 2017 was notorious for fires and constitutes a striking example of this transformation due to the high social, economic, and environmental impact caused by fires. Give...
Exposure and vulnerability analysis are valuable tools for wildfire management, especially important for local communities that suffer from very destructive events and that require mitigation approaches adjusted to their abilities and needs. We present a methodological procedure to analyze wildfire exposure levels, social vulnerability conditions a...
In the 21 st century, the implementation of doctoral education in Geography has led to an increase in the number of theses focused on Physical Geography. However, little is known about the dynamics inherent to fieldwork techniques, methods, and studied topics. In order to gain a better understanding of this increasing trend and its evolution, this...
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In Portugal, the 2017 fire season was particularly extreme, leading to an unprecedented large number of fatalities, injured people, destruction of houses and infrastructures. These dramatic outcomes have contributed to raise awareness regarding the importance of ensuring the safety of people and assets from high intensity uncontrollabl...
This study aimed to assess wildfire risk specifically for human settlements, testing the procedure in three regions of mainland Portugal, representing the west coast (Oeste), the south coast (Algarve) and a central inland sector (Viseu-Dão-Lafões).
A presente obra resulta das contribuições de quase 1000 investigadores internacionais sobre questões relacionadas com os incêndios florestais. A obra tem a sua origem na “9th International Conference on Forest Fire Research”, uma conferência internacional sobre a mesma temática, que reúne de 4 em 4 anos na região de Coimbra os mais prestigiados e r...
Wildfires in Portugal have been increasingly affecting urban areas, putting people and property at risk. With the fires of 2017, several measures were proposed to increase the protection of settlements and the population. Therefore, this study analyzes the implementation of the "safe villages and safe people" program, considering the spatial distri...
A freguesia de Alvares foi gravemente afetada em 2017, tendo ardido cerca de 70% da sua área, tornando-se necessário melhorar a sua capacidade de resposta. Para isso, foram aplicadas duas metodologias: com recurso a ferramentas SIG (cost path e cost distance) e com o Pedestrian Evacuation Analyst Tool (PEAT). Comparando ambas as abordagens, a popul...
Resumo Um índice de risco de incêndio foi aplicado às 972 freguesias da região Centro de Portugal Continental, integrando três dimensões: perigosidade, exposição e vulnerabilidade social. As freguesias do setor centro-sul apresentam níveis de risco mais elevados. Os padrões espaciais variam para cada dimensão; a vulnerabilidade mais elevada ocorre...
A freguesia de Alvares, no concelho de Góis, foi muito afetada pelos incêndios de junho de 2017, tendo ardido 70% da sua área. Para melhorar a proteção das comunidades locais e aumentar a sua capacidade de resposta, é fundamental avaliar o nível de exposição das povoações a grandes incêndios. Neste sentido, foi avaliado o nível de exposição das pov...
Wildfire susceptibility and hazard models based on drivers that change only on a multiyear timescale are considered of a structural nature. They ignore specific short-term conditions in any year and period within the year, especially summer, when most wildfire damage occurs in southern Europe. We investigate whether the predictive capacity of struc...
Wildfire susceptibility maps are a well-known tool for optimizing available means to plan for prevention, early detection, and wildfire suppression in Portugal, especially regarding the critical fire season (1 July − 30 September). These susceptibility maps typically disregard seasonal weather conditions on each given year, being based on predispos...
We present new wildfire susceptibility and hazard maps for mainland Portugal. • Predisposing factors are landcover, slope angle and elevation. • We applied the Likelihood Ratio method and used fire history from 1975 to 2018. • Landcover favourability scores are obtained for different timeframes. • Structural maps can support spatial planning and ri...
The large wildfires of June 2017 disturbed many communities in central Portugal. The civil parish of Alvares was severely affected, with about 60% of its area burnt. Assessing the risk of large wildfires affecting local communities is becoming increasingly important, to reduce potential losses in the future. In this study, we assessed wildfire risk...
Os incêndios florestais são um dos riscos ambientais mais gravosos em Portugal. O ano de 2017 foi particularmente desastroso, devido à elevada extensão de área ardida e, principalmente, pelas elevadas perdas humanas derivadas dos incêndios de junho e outubro. A freguesia de Alvares, no concelho de Góis, foi fortemente afetada pelos incêndios de jun...
