7th International Wildland Fire Conference

Wildland Fire Prediction

Acknowledgments Firstly, I want to thank to my colleagues from DACSO. The help given by them always has been very useful. Thanks to Baker and Mónica for her participation in the experiments, and to Xiao for saving me when I was in a tight spot (talking in scientic terms). I also would like to thank to Ana Cortés and Tomàs Margalef for their corrections and guidance. Thank to Emilio Luque for hi...

7th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization

Pine Regeneration Following Wildland Fire

Pine regeneration following wildland fire continues to be a serious problem across the western and southeastern U.S. Frequency of large wildfires has increased over the last several decades and restoration of these burned areas is a major problem confronting land managers. Prescribed fires are used primarily to reduce heavy fuel loads and secondarily to reduce competition or prepare sites for n...

7th Setac Africa Conference

by 21 October. SETAC North America 36th Annual Meeting 1–5 Nov. 2015 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA | slc.setac.org

Predicting Wildland Fire Policy Support

Theoretically grounded empirical models can improve our understanding of public support for (or opposition to) wildland fire policies. Based on the specificity principle (general to specific versus specific to specific variable associations), we empirically examined the influence of three sets causal influences (general socio-demographics, general situational indicators, specific psychological ...