Spatial and Temporal Wildfire Decomposition as a Tool for Assessment and Planning of an Efficient Forest Policy in Galicia (Spain)
Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics & Statistics, Faculty of Economics & Business, Complutense University of Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28224 Madrid, Spain
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Forests 2020, 11(8), 811; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080811
Received: 18 May 2020
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Revised: 22 July 2020
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Accepted: 24 July 2020
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Published: 27 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Valuation and Sustainable Management of Forests)
Wildfires in Galicia have various temporal and spatial trends. This temporal and spatial behavior must therefore be studied and taken into account in order to design more efficient forest policies. Since both factors are inhomogeneous, it was proposed to study them using a Gini index decomposition. The number of fires and the affected forest area were studied in terms of the months and the forest districts, which serve as basic temporal and spatial elements. The objective of this methodology is to know the months in which the fires are most concentrated throughout the administrative geographical districts of the various provinces of Galicia, and the elasticity of each month with respect to the global concentration. It is also used to know the temporal inequality in each forest district of Galicia and its contribution to the global index. To apply this methodology, monthly data are taken from 2006 to 2015 for each of the Galician forest districts. It is found that there is a high spatial concentration of fires in the autumn and winter months, and a much lower one in the remaining months. On the other hand, most districts register a great temporal inequality in the occurrence of fires. Tentative suggestions of how the forest policy in Galicia could be improved by taking into account both these spatial and temporal patterns are discussed.
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Keywords:
Galicia; GINI decomposition; forest planning; public policies; wildfires
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Barreal, J.; Jannes, G. Spatial and Temporal Wildfire Decomposition as a Tool for Assessment and Planning of an Efficient Forest Policy in Galicia (Spain). Forests 2020, 11, 811. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080811
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Barreal J, Jannes G. Spatial and Temporal Wildfire Decomposition as a Tool for Assessment and Planning of an Efficient Forest Policy in Galicia (Spain). Forests. 2020; 11(8):811. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080811
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarreal, Jesús, and Gil Jannes. 2020. "Spatial and Temporal Wildfire Decomposition as a Tool for Assessment and Planning of an Efficient Forest Policy in Galicia (Spain)" Forests 11, no. 8: 811. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080811
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