Vulnerability to Wildfires and Peri-urban Areas: An Integrated Socioenvironmental Assessment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-50446-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-50446-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50446-4_8" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-50446-4_8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Vulnerability to Wildfires and Peri-urban Areas: An Integrated Socioenvironmental Assessment
Original language description
Assuming landscape transformations as a process fueling the local level of vulnerability to wildfires, this work investigates the spatial distribution of selected land-use classes for two years (1975 and 2018) in a metropolitan region of the Mediterranean basin (Athens, central Greece). Built-up settlements and cropland expanded moderately over time, facing a slight decline in forests and semi-natural areas. These changes resulted in the inherent growth in local vulnerability to wildfires estimated using a composite indicator, namely the Fire Risk (FR) index developed in the framework of the MEDALUS international research project financed by the European Commission. Crop mosaics and discontinuous settlements were the classes contributing the most to FR growth. The empirical findings of our work suggest how the conversion of fringe landscapes toward simplified (and, likely, low-quality) cropland and pasture land, as well as the inherent fragmentation of natural/semi-natural landscape patches, is detrimental to environmental quality, increasing the potential exposure to peri-urban fires.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
ISBN
978-3-031-50445-7
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
95-106
Number of pages of the book
210
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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