A5001260381- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Forest ecology and management
- Landslides and related hazards
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest Management and Policy
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Regione del Veneto
2020-2022
Surface biomass characterization plays a key role in wildfire management. It allows classifying vegetation fuels flammability for fire risk analysis, to define silvicultural prescriptions hazard reduction, plan prescribed burning, or model behavior and its effects, such as greenhouse gas pollutant emissions. To facilitate fuel classification analysis of potential effects Italy, we harmonized 634 measurements surface wildland from Alpine, temperate Mediterranean environments. The dataset...
On 29 October 2018, the Vaia storm hit Alpine forests of Italy with winds at 200 km h−1. The forest areas totally or partially damaged by were about 41,000 ha, which 12,000 ha in Veneto Region. Large and stands spruce beech forests, usually not very prone to wildfires, blown down. Only limited portions downed trees harvested first year after storm. Due changes surface fuel conditions, timber understory models area affected converted slash-blowdown models, results significant short-term...
Considering the importance of forest fires problem in Italy, It is essential to improve tools available for fire prevention, beginning with a correct and detailed risk evaluation. At present most part plans at national level, do not consider, when dealing analysis, fire’s behavior potential propagation (or consider them only using empirical models). This study shows methodology used by Veneto Region characterization mapping regional level. The application simulation allowed creation very...
<p>Wildfires pose a great threat to the wildland-urban interface (WUI), zone of contact between wildland vegetation and human-settled environment. In these areas, high fuel loads often coexist with value assets, which are more exposed ignition than equivalent structures in an urban context. At WUI, wildfires can quickly exhaust resources normally available firefighters, assets do not allow use large-scale, resource-saving techniques common fires...
The cooperation between the civil protection organizations of conterminous administrations is fundamental because natural hazards do not stop at borders. Natural hazards, such as wildland fires, are prominent threats to human lives and activities, they put under stress when occur. These have for long been preparing protocols procedures face these hazards. Nonetheless, this expertise always shared administrations. Bureaucratic barriers, different languages accessibility information can reduce...