Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
(António Vieira and António Bento-Gonçalves)
Part I – Dimensions of Wildland Fires
1 – Wildland Fires
(António Bento-Gonçalves, António Vieira, Flora Ferreira-Leite and Luís da Vinha, Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Departamento de Geografia, University of Minho, Portugal, and others)
2 – Mega-Fires Around The World: A Literature Review
(Flora Ferreira-Leite, António Bento-Gonçalves, António Vieira and Luís da Vinha, Bolseira da FCT, Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, University of Minho, Portugal, and others)
3 – Wildland Fire: Impacts On Forest, Woodland, and Grassland Ecological Processes
(Daniel G. Neary and Jackson Leonard, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Air, Water, and Aquatic Environments Program, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)
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Part II – Wildland Fires in the World
4 – Forest Fires in Portugal – Brief Characterization
(Flora Ferreira-Leite, António Bento-Gonçalves, António Vieira and Luís da Vinha, Bolseira da FCT, Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, University of Minho, Portugal, and others)
5 – Wildfires in Spain: Causes, Evolution and Effects
(Nicolás Gómez Armisen and Xavier Úbeda, Department of Physical Geography and Regional Analysis. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, and others)
6 – Forest Fires in Greece: Past, Present and Future
(Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems and Forest Products Technology, Athens, Greece)
7 – Forest fires in Algeria: Occurrences, Causes and Prevention
(Zahira Souidi, António Bento-Gonçalves and António Vieira, Laboratoire LRSBG, University Mustappha Stambouli of Mascara, Algeria, and others)
8 – Wildland Fires in Israel
(Lea Wittenberg and Dan Malkinson, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Israel, and others)
9 – Wildfires in Lithuania
(Paulo Pereira, Artemi Cerda and Ieva Misiune, Environmental Managament Centre, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania, and others)
10 – Wildfires in Russia: Features, Regimes and Consequences
(Anna S. Tsibart, N. S. Gamova, T. S. Koshovskii and A. N. Gennadiev, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Russia, and others)
11 – Diagnosis of Forest Fires in Chile
(Miguel Castillo Soto, Dr. Natural Resources and Sustainability, Laboratory of Forest Fire, University of Chile, Casilla, Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Index
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