Relationship between landscape quality and forest fire risk.
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https://doi.org/10.5380/rf.v38i1.11035Keywords:
Fragilidade da paisagem, valoração da paisagem, zoneamento de risco.Abstract
The landscape quality is an intrinsic attribute of a territory. The fragility of the landscape depends on the type of activity developed in this territory. Regions with low landscape quality can present conditions that favor the fire spread, in function of the forest fuel, existing vegetal covering and characteristics of meteorological conditions. A degraded landscape is a fragile environment, being able to allow the action of external agents as the erosion, the plagues and forest fires. The objective of this work was to search a relation between landscape quality and forest fire risk, using methods of landscape quality and fragility evaluation, based on descriptive maps of a region. The studied area was the Brejão Farm, property of the Company Vallourec & Mannesmann, located in Brasilândia, Minas Gerais state. The results indicate a good correlation between the landscape quality and the forest fire risk, suggesting that the landscape quality can be an important tool for the refinement and zoning of the fire risk.
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