
TY  - JOUR
A1  - de Almeida, AMS Ferreira 
A1  - e Moura, PVS Vilaça 
T1  - The Relationship of Forest Fires to Agro-Forestry and Socio-Economic Parameters in Portugal
JF  - International Journal of Wildland Fire
JO  - Int. J. Wildland Fire
Y1  - 1992
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 37
EP  - 40
KW  - Fire parameters; Multivariate analysis; Zonation;Fire prevention
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9920037 
N2  - 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. 
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