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RESEARCH ARTICLE

The Relationship of Forest Fires to Agro-Forestry and Socio-Economic Parameters in Portugal

AMS Ferreira de Almeida and PVS Vilaça e Moura

International Journal of Wildland Fire 2(1) 37 - 40
Published: 1992

Abstract

Forest fires are increasing every year in Portugal. Trying to understand more about their causes, we collected available forest fires data, as well as agroforestry and socio-economic parameters considered to be closely related to them, in all the 274 administrative regions (councils). Using multivariate analysis (principal components analysis and classification) we established 8 groups of councils defined by the identity of response of the analysed variables. We were, therefore, able to determine which parameters mainly influenced each group, and that knowledge could be a starting point to fire prevention.

Keywords: Fire parameters; Multivariate analysis; Zonation; Fire prevention

https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9920037

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