Gavriil Xanthopoulos

TL;DR: The main findings are that socio-economic drivers have favoured land cover changes contributing to increasing fire hazard in the last decades, and large wildfires are becoming more frequent and increased fire frequency is promoting homogeneous landscapes covered by fire-prone shrublands.

TL;DR: The authors argue that current wildfire management policies in Mediterranean-type climate regions are destined to fail and recommend that policy and expenditures be rebalanced between suppression and mitigation of the negative impacts of fire.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a definition of Extreme Wildfire Events (EWE) as a process and an outcome, based on literature review and using a transdisciplinary approach, and presented a proposal of wildfire classification with seven categories based on measurable fire spread and behavior parameters and suppression difficulty.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how contemporary forest fire risk can only be understood from a historical perspective and how this risk is growing exponentially as a result of high and increasing population density and a creeping urban sprawl that is increasing the extent and complexity of the wildland urban interface.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between forest fire activity and meteorological parameters and sought to find temporal patterns and trends in these historical records and to identify any linkages between meteorological parameter and fire occurrence in the eastern Mediterranean region.