Central region of Portugal: two decades of forest fires

Abstract

The Central Region has been, in the last 20 years, the main destructed Portuguese area by forest fires, although the internal significant variation in its manifestation and gravity. In those situations, analysing the temporal evolution and spatial comportment of fires, happened between 1980 and 2000, discerning some of the geographical and human aspects, are the first objectives of this work. To concretising the last aim we used a methodological that combine, with a linear correlation coefficient of Bravais-Pearson, environmental, social and economical information with a forest fires, with the intention to evaluate her relation intensity.