Vulnerability to Wildfires and Peri-urban Areas: An Integrated Socioenvironmental Assessment

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Vulnerability to Wildfires and Peri-urban Areas: An Integrated Socioenvironmental Assessment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Vulnerability to Wildfires and Peri-urban Areas: An Integrated Socioenvironmental Assessment

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues

ISBN

978-3-031-50445-7

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

95-106

Počet stran knihy

210

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Amsterdam

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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