Utilize este identificador para referenciar este registo:
https://hdl.handle.net/10216/117884
Autor(es): | Tedim, Fantina Leone, Vittorio Amraoui, Malik Bouillon, Christophe Coughlan, Michael R. Delogu, Giuseppe M. Fernandes, Paulo M. Ferreira, Carmen McCaffrey, Sarah McGee, Tara K. Parente, Joana Paton, Douglas Pereira, Mário G. Ribeiro, Luís M. Viegas, Domingos X. Xanthopoulos, Gavriil |
Título: | Defining extreme wildfire events: difficulties, challenges, and impacts |
Data de publicação: | 2018-06 |
Resumo: | Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppressioncapabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasingfrequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social impacts,but there is no agreement upon terminology to describe them. The concept of extreme wildfire event(EWE) has emerged to bring some coherence on this kind of events. It is increasingly used, often asa synonym of other terms related to wildfires of high intensity and size, but its definition remainselusive. The goal of this paper is to go beyond drawing on distinct disciplinary perspectives todevelop a holistic view of EWE as a social-ecological phenomenon. Based on literature review andusing a transdisciplinary approach, this paper proposes a definition of EWE as a process and anoutcome. Considering the lack of a consistent scale of gravity to leverage extreme wildfire eventssuch as in natural hazards (e.g., tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes) we present a proposal ofwildfire classification with seven categories based on measurable fire spread and behavior parametersand suppression difficulty. The categories 5 to 7 are labeled as EWE. |
Assunto: | Geografia Geography |
URI: | https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/117884 |
Tipo de Documento: | Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional |
Condições de Acesso: | openAccess |
Aparece nas coleções: | FLUP - Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional |
Ficheiros deste registo:
Ficheiro | Descrição | Tamanho | Formato | |
---|---|---|---|---|
304413.pdf | 852.48 kB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |
Todos os registos no repositório estão protegidos por leis de copyright, com todos os direitos reservados.