Public lands as a mitigator of wildfire burned area using a spatio-temporal model applied in Sardinia

Laura Serra (), Claudio Detotto and Marco Vannini
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Laura Serra: University of Girona

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, No 19, 635 pages

Abstract: Abstract In the last decades, wildfire hazards have increased to dangerous levels, becoming the focus of debate among policymakers both at the local and national levels. This paper proposes a Spatio-temporal approach to study the determinants of fire size distributions taking Sardinia as a case study in the time span 1998–2009. Special attention is devoted to socio-economic factors of local communities where wildfires occurred. The main finding of this study is that the proportion of public lands in a given municipality tends to mitigate the extent of the burned area. In addition, communities with a higher percentage of people employed in the primary sector are less likely to experience large burned extents.

Keywords: Burned area; INLA; Sardinia; Spatio-temporal model; Wildfires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 H41 Q23 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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