Burnt area trends in the Middle-East: evidence for the importance of recent conflicts

Autor: Georgia Majdalani, Nikos Koutsias, Jocelyne Adjizian-Gerard, Ghaleb Faour, Florent Mouillot
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022 ISBN: 9789892622989
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_154
Popis: Fire is a major disturbance affecting Mediterranean ecosystems. Due to a lack of exhaustive fire registration, fire drivers in the Middle East have been hardly investigated. We propose here the analysis of a newly produced fire patch reconstruction from remote sensing over the 1984 – 2020 period in Lebanon and Syria. First, we will provide a description of the particular bimodal and late season fire regimes in the two neighboring countries. Then, taking into account their different socio-political conditions since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, we will disentangle climate and social drivers by analyzing the ICEWS conflict events data-base.
Databáze: OpenAIRE