Territories in change and the fires in wildland urban interface. Case study in Baião

Authors

  • Emanuel Sardo Fidalgo Mestre em Dinâmicas Sociais, Riscos Naturais e Tecnológicos, pelas Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Faculdade de Economia e Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/0871-1623_31_9

Keywords:

Wildland-urban interface, Risk, Vulnerability, Resilience

Abstract

The presence of the human element, in work situations or leisure, always carries risks. Portugal, geographically integrated in the Mediterranean basin, has favourable characteristics to the outbreak of forest fires especially in the summer. Although not a recent phenomenon, the forest fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) have gained notoriety because its damages are increasing as a result of expansion of areas with such characteristics. Presently, there are in the rural mountain regions of northwestern Portugal some territorial dynamics, demographic and social changes, result in a scenario that aggravated the occurrence of wildfires in the WUI.

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Published

2012-09-01

Issue

No. 30-31 (2012): Cadernos de Geografia n. 30-31

Section

Outros

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