Wildfires have been having increasing importance through the last two decades in the Mediterranean region. The scope of this thesis is to describe and understand the causes, fuel and spreading of the fire with the aim of comparing the Mediterranean wildfires to central European wildfires. The countries selected for this comparison are Spain and the Czech Republic. Although the wildfires in Spain are ten times more numerous and burn one hundred times more forest area, the distribution is more or less similar to the wildfires in the Czech Republic. Because of this similarity, the notion of climate change should be addressed with the correspondent importance. The shift in species and climatic conditions will approach the Czech Republic to actual conditions in Spain, increasing the risk of fire and loss of habitats due to the lack of post-fire regeneration that central European species have. In the same scope, Spain would face increased recurrence of fires and the desertification risk that the deforestation would increase. Therefore, the use of new technologies available should be necessary in the identification of the fire in the early stages and the fighting labours.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:362207 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Rumbo Cabanilles, Adrian Francisco |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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