In the last decades, wildfire hazards have increased to dangerous levels, becoming the focus of debate among policymakers both at the local and national levels. This paper proposes a Spatio-temporal approach to study the determinants of fire size distributions taking Sardinia as a case study in the time span 1998-2009. Special attention is devoted to socio-economic factors of local communities where wildfires occurred. The main finding of this study is that the proportion of public lands in a given municipality tends to mitigate the extent of the burned area. In addition, communities with a higher percentage of people employed in the primary sector are less likely to experience large burned extents.

Public lands as a mitigator of wildfire burned area using a spatio-temporal model applied in Sardinia / Serra, L; Detotto, C; Vannini, M. - In: LETTERS IN SPATIAL AND RESOURCE SCIENCES. - ISSN 1864-4031. - 15:3(2022), pp. 621-635. [10.1007/s12076-022-00315-7]

Public lands as a mitigator of wildfire burned area using a spatio-temporal model applied in Sardinia

Vannini, M
2022-01-01

Abstract

In the last decades, wildfire hazards have increased to dangerous levels, becoming the focus of debate among policymakers both at the local and national levels. This paper proposes a Spatio-temporal approach to study the determinants of fire size distributions taking Sardinia as a case study in the time span 1998-2009. Special attention is devoted to socio-economic factors of local communities where wildfires occurred. The main finding of this study is that the proportion of public lands in a given municipality tends to mitigate the extent of the burned area. In addition, communities with a higher percentage of people employed in the primary sector are less likely to experience large burned extents.
2022
Public lands as a mitigator of wildfire burned area using a spatio-temporal model applied in Sardinia / Serra, L; Detotto, C; Vannini, M. - In: LETTERS IN SPATIAL AND RESOURCE SCIENCES. - ISSN 1864-4031. - 15:3(2022), pp. 621-635. [10.1007/s12076-022-00315-7]
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