Special Issue "Characterizing and Predicting Bushfire for Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Development"

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Iqbal Hossain
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Guest Editor
Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, 3122 Melbourne, Australia
Interests: hydrology; seasonal rainfall forecasting; extreme rainfall prediction; sustainability and water quality modelling
Dr. Fazlul Karim
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Guest Editor
CSIRO Land & Water, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: hydrology; floodplain hydraulics; inundation modeling; water resources assessment; sediment transport; hydrological connectivity and linking hydrology and ecology
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Dr. Anirban Khastagir
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Guest Editor
Department of Engineering, Electrical and Telecoms, RMIT University, 3000 Melbourne, Australia
Interests: fire spread; climate change; extreme events
Dr. Faisal Anwar
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Guest Editor
School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, U1987 Curtin, Australia
Interests: groundwater; hydrology; stormwater; water and environmental engineering; water pollution
Dr. John B. Kim
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Guest Editor
USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Interests: climate change; ecology; ecosystems and environment; environment and people; fire

Special Issue Information

Atmosphere dedicates this special issue to characterizing and predicting bushfire for sustainable natural resource management and development. Wildfires have been an important part of ecosystems across many biomes of the world, with many natural landscapes shaped and adapted to fire. Fire regimes vary by region, by vegetation and climate, with some regions experiencing frequent catastrophic wildfires. Global warming is underway and its effects on fire dynamics are already documented, and is projected to increase significantly under many climate change scenarios.

 
Wildfire has the potential to severely impact natural resources and the ecosystem services they provide, by affecting wildlife habitat, water supply, transportation and recreational infrastructure, and carbon storage. Additionally, as human population and associated developments expand further into natural landscapes, wildfires become increasingly direct hazards to buildings and human lives.
 
Therefore, it is essential to characterize the many types of bushfires and their drivers across the world, and improve our ability to forecast and project wildfires under future scenarios. In this issue, we invite papers that characterize and predict bushfires in the short-term or the long-term, and explore their current and future impacts on human communities and civil infrastructure, such as water supply and road networks, and how management and development adapt to bushfire. We also invite papers that explore, estimate, and model wildfire effects on many of the ecosystem services provided by the natural landscapes.

Dr. Iqbal Hossain
Dr. Fazlul Karim
Dr. Anirban Khastagir
Dr. Faisal Anwar
Dr. John B. Kim
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Atmosphere is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • hazards perception
  • bushfire
  • extreme events
  • climate change
  • fire danger

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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