Abstract: |
Forest fires in the wildland-urban interface are a growing problem in Europe as well as in the rest of the world. In the frame of WARM project (Wildland-Urban Area Fire Risk Management), a research activity of the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission, the scales of the problem and factors identified are presented. According to the experience of past years, a consistent and comprehensive framework is explained in which several research activities are presented. Among them, the characterization of different house-vegetation patterns, the description of interface fuels, the modeling of fire behavior and the participation of water runoff and landslides are considered in the computing of settlement risk and vulnerability. |
