STUDY CAUSATION OF FIRES IN GALICIA: A SOCIOECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

Jesús Barreal Pernas, Maria Loureiro and Juan Picos Martín

Revista Galega de Economía, 2011, vol. 20, issue ex

Abstract: Many research papers analyze forest fires with respect to physical or meteorological characteristics of the burned areas, although not many pay attention to the socio-economic factors that affect the occurrence of forest fires. To fill in this gap in the literature, this work analyzes the impact of socio-economic variables that affect fires occurrence. In order to do so, we employ a baseline linear regression model correcting for heterogeneity across municipalities in Galicia and a Poisson regression. The most remarkable results show the importance of demographic variables, such as population dispersion, as well as the different agricultural land uses. In addition, we show the importance of the geographical component and organization of extinction activities, as well as the economic resources employed in prevention.

Keywords: Cause-effect; Wildfires; Galicia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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