RT Journal Article
T1 Fire Scenarios in Spain: A Territorial Approach to Proactive Fire Management in the Context of Global Change
A1 Montiel Molina, Cristina Del Rocío
A1 Galiana Martín, Luis
AB Humans and fire form a coupled and co-evolving natural-human system in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. In this context, recent trends in landscape change, such as urban sprawl or the abandoning of agricultural and forest land management in line with new models of economic development and lifestyles, are leading to new fire scenarios. A fire scenario refers to the contextual factors of a fire regime, i.e., the environmental, socio-economic and policy drivers of wildfire initiation and propagation on different spatial and temporal scales. This is basically a landscape concept linking territorial dynamics (related to ecosystem evolution and settlement patterns) with a fire regime (ignition causes; spread patterns; fire frequency, severity, extent and seasonality). The aim of this article is to identify and characterize these land-based fire scenarios in Spain on a national and regional scale, using a GIS-based methodology to perform a spatial analysis of the area attributes of homogenous fire spread patterns. To do this, the main variables considered are: land use/land cover, fuel load and recent fire history. The final objective is to reduce territorial vulnerability to forest wildfires and facilitate the adaptation of fire policies and land management systems to current challenges of preparedness and uncertainty management.
PB MDPI
SN 1999-4907
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23834
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23834
LA eng
NO Montiel Molina, Cristina, y Luis Galiana-Martín. «Fire Scenarios in Spain: A Territorial Approach to Proactive Fire Management in the Context of Global Change». Forests 7, n.o 11 (12 de noviembre de 2016): 273. https://doi.org/10.3390/f7110273.
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Unión Europea. FP6
NO Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025