Advanced Research on Wildland Fires, Urban Fires and Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 304
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest fire; heat transfer; tunnel fire; pool fire
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Interests: fire risk assessment; underground fire
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Society faces immediate challenges in light of climate change causing increased weather volatility. There is a clear risk of increases in the frequency and size of wildland fires and also wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires. Large-scale wildland fires also bring great challenges for first responders and incident management. It is important to continue efforts to model and understand the wildland fire spread and the complexity of the wildland–urban interface in order to develop modern preventative and mitigation methods. More research is needed to optimize incident management in support of enhancing resilience in the face of large events. Efforts are needed to further understand how WUI communities can become more resilient, e.g., through hardening structures, community initiatives, codes and standards.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Wildland fire spread;
- Wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires;
- Urban fires (building fires and underground space fires);
- Forest and urban risk assessment;
- Prescribed burning and controlled burning;
- Forest and urban fire detection, forecasting and prevention;
- Incident management;
- Personnel evacuation;
- Forest resources investigation;
- Fire protection equipment;
- New building materials and technologies;
- Sustainable development of urban construction;
- Economic sustainability;
- Urban and forest planning;
- Fire ecology and management;
- Regulations, standards, and guidelines.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Huaxian Wan
Dr. Zihe Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest fire
- WUI fire
- urban fire
- urban resilience
- risk assessment
- fire detection and prevention
- forest and urban planning
- personnel evacuation
- fire ecology and management
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