Comprehensive Monitoring of Wildfires in Europe: The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)

Autor: Giuseppe Amatulli, Andrea Camia, Fernando Sedano, Tracy Houston Durrant, Cristiano Giovando, Marcos Rodrigues, Sandra Oliveira, Daniel McInerney, Friderike Oehler, Pieter Kempeneers, Paolo Corti, Roberto Boca, Ceri Withmore, Ernst Schulte, Lara Vilar, Peter Strobl, Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz, Giorgio Libertà, Guido Schmuck
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Approaches to Managing Disaster-Assessing Hazards, Emergencies and Disaster Impacts
Popis: Fires are an integral component of ecosystem dynamics in European landscapes. However, uncontrolled fires cause large environmental and economic damages, especially in the Mediterranean region. On average, about 65000 fires occur in Europe every year, burning approximately half a million ha of wildland and forest areas; most of the burnt area, over 85%, is in the European Mediterranean region. Trends in number of fires and burnt areas in the Mediterranean region are presented in Fig. 1.
Databáze: OpenAIRE