
%0 Journal Article
%A de Almeida, AMS Ferreira 
%A e Moura, PVS Vilaça 
%T The Relationship of Forest Fires to Agro-Forestry and Socio-Economic Parameters in Portugal
%J International Journal of Wildland Fire
%D 1992/03/01
%V 2
%N 1
%P 37-40
%K Fire parameters; Multivariate analysis; Zonation;Fire prevention
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9920037
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WF9920037 
%X 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. 
