A5101895311- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Landslides and related hazards
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Organizzazione per la Tutela Forestale, Ambientale e Agroalimentare
2006-2017
Regione Puglia
2014
University of Sassari
2012
University of Florence
2012
Leonardo (United Kingdom)
2012
University of Turin
2012
University of Basilicata
2012
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these with significant social impacts, but no agreement upon terminology describe them. The concept of extreme wildfire event (EWE) has emerged bring coherence on this kind events. It increasingly used, as synonym other terms related high intensity size, its...
Wildfire fatalities remain a significant problem in Mediterranean Europe. Although there is strong inter-annual variability with regard to their number, repeated tragic accidents remind us of this grim occurrence, despite the increasing firefighting capacity aimed improve human safety. In paper, we present an analysis 865 caused by wildfires 1945–2016 period. Data originating from national databases were merged, contextual and weather factors related that these deaths documented analysed...
Heat-wave events are commonly recognized as adverse impacts on agriculture, forests, and economic activities. Several studies showed that future climate changes in the western Mediterranean Basin will lead to an increase extreme weather events, mainly summer season. For this reason, it is crucial improve our knowledge investigate effects of temperature wildland fire activity. This work analyses relation between high days (air higher than 25°C at 850hPa) large fires Sardinia (Italy) during...
Prescribed burning experiences in Italy: an integrated approach to prevent forest fires.Prescribed is used many geographical areas for multiple and objectives (wildfire prevention, habitat conservation, grazing management).In Europe the collaboration between researchers fire professionals has brought implement this technique over increasing (~10 4 ha year -1 ), effectively efficiently.In Italy prescribed not been much studied it rarely applied.A new interest recently rising.Some Regions...
ABSTRACT The worst outcome of wildland fires is the loss human lives, a recurrent phenomenon over last few decades in Sardinia, Europe and worldwide. This work analyzes all recorded fatalities Sardinia from 1945 to 2015 trends terms annual number fatalities. time period was split due legal socioeconomic changes periods (1945-1975; 1976-2000; 2001-2015). We classified accident types during study most frequent causes how they were related 1) involved groups (professional firefighters,...