Analysing wildfire occurrence through a mixed-method approach: a case study from the Croatian Mediterranean

Abstract: Processes such as littoralization, socio-economic restructuring and agricultural abandonment facilitate land cover changes in the Mediterranean, which then lead to an increased fire risk in the region. These processes are in part driven by people’s values, beliefs and traditional knowledge, lending itself to both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. However, despite the importance of human factors in wildfire occurrence and the complexity of human-environmental relations, such studies so far have been almost exclusively quantitative. This research aims at analysing the drivers of wildfire occurrence in the Mediterranean region of Dalmatia, Croatia through mixed-method approach. Croatia has gone through rapid social and economic changes in the past 30 years which have affected livelihood strategies and landscape configuration. The study includes spatial and statistical analysis of a set of variables during two fire seasons (2011 and 2013), but in-depth interviews with f.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2874

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Analysing wildfire occurrence through a mixed-method approach: a case study from the Croatian Mediterranean ; volume:73 ; number:4 ; year:2019
Erdkunde ; 73, Heft 4 (2019)

Urheber
Jajtić, Kristina
Galijan, Valentina
Žafran, Ivana
Cvitanović, Marin

DOI
10.3112/erdkunde.2019.04.05
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281730223.313882076473
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Beteiligte

  • Jajtić, Kristina
  • Galijan, Valentina
  • Žafran, Ivana
  • Cvitanović, Marin

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