Forest Fires: Latest Advances and Perspectives
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards and Risk Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 July 2024) | Viewed by 6279
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, ADAI, Rua Luís Reis Santos, Pólo II, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: forest fires; fire safety; heat transfer; energy efficiency; renewable energy technologies
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2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, ADAI, Rua Luís Reis Santos, Pólo II, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: forest fires; merging fires; fire safety; fire technology; asset maintenance
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Interests: forest fires; fire exposure and risk; fire spread and behavior modeling; fire regime; fire-prone Mediterranean areas
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wildland fires are a significant disturbance agent and can cause major losses to ecosystems, farms, anthropic values, and human lives. In recent years, several works have highlighted that wildland fires with extreme spread and behavior have become increasingly large and devastating and that fire-prone areas are expanding to new areas. This can be attributed to the frequency increase in dangerous environmental conditions able to sustain the occurrence of devastating wildfires or even mega fires, which are associated with an overall increase in fire danger. The impact of climate change on wildfire activity shows that fire severity and burned area will increase dramatically in the near future, causing significant environmental, human, and economic losses if adaptation measures are not implemented. In recent decades, much work has been developed to try to mitigate the problem of forest fires. However, the annual burned area has continued to increase and spread to new geographical locations, which shows that the problem persists and is becoming worse. Forest management teams, fire operational people, and decision-makers need the support of cutting-edge research in the field of forest fire modeling and forest management to make the best decisions. Moreover, climate change and extreme climatic events increase the complexity of the fire/forest decision-making problem. The research outputs can be used to solve this type of problems using model tools, exact procedures, and rules.
In this Special Issue, we are looking for the latest advances and perspectives in the area of wildland fires, including fire spread modeling, fire exposure and risk analysis, fuel management strategies, forest ecology, threats posed by extreme wildfires, post-fire recovery, fire preparedness, emergency management, and new technologies applied to ecosystems and fires. We encourage studies from all fields, including experimental or numerical models, experimental or field studies, real case studies, decision-making rules, or software tools.
Dr. Gilberto Vaz
Dr. Jorge R. N. Raposo
Dr. Michele Salis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest fires
- forest fuels
- fire ecology
- weather and climate
- extreme wildfires
- wildfire management
- wildfire modeling
- decision support systems
- forest and fire technologies
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