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    • A new full-scale method for ranking flammability of ornamental vegetation 

      Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Almeida, Miguel; Ribeiro, Luis Mario; Vacca, Pascale; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2025-02-11)
      Article
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Ornamental vegetation constitutes the main type of natural fuel within the wildland-urban interface. Its flammability is often the criteria that fire risk managers use to promote certain species against others, with direct ...
    • Analysis of the effectiveness of WUI shaded fuel breaks 

      Vacca, Pascale; Dossi, Simona; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2024)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The effectiveness of WUI fuel management practices aimed at protecting communities, infrastructures, and homes is analysed, specifically considering prescriptions for shaded fuel breaks of the regions of Catalonia (Spain) ...
    • D2.1. WUITIPS - WUI fire management in touristic areas: gap and needs analysis for a harmonized framework 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale (2023-06-30)
      Research report
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
    • Deliverable D2.2 FIREPRIME implementation strategy 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Dossi, Simona; Vacca, Pascale; Canaleta, Guillem; Ballart, Helena; Cifre, Maria; Rodríguez, Israel; Molina, Alexandre; Sjöström, Johan; Vermina Plathner, Frida; Papathoma-Köhle, Maria; Fuchs, Sven (2024-07-05)
      Research report
      Open Access
      In this document, the strategy of FIREPRIME implementation is detailed, focusing on three main aspects: the summary of findings regarding the socioeconomic profile of local communities, the basic content of the program for ...
    • Deliverable D4.1 Protection of buildings and touristic assets against wildfires: good practices and methodology for performance assessment 

      Vacca, Pascale; Dossi, Simona; Guillaume, Bruno; Auguin, Gildas (2024-03-31)
      Research report
      Open Access
      This deliverable presents the findings of the analysis conducted in WP4 tasks 4.1-4.4 focusing on the protection of buildings and touristic assets against wildfires.
    • Deliverable D6.3 WUITIPS - Demonstration Event I 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Codina, Martí; Ronchi, Enrico (2024-12-13)
      Research report
      Open Access
      This deliverable summarizes the content of Demonstration Event I, held in Girona, Spain, where the tools and methods developed under the WUITIPS project were showcased at the Costa Brava pilot site. The document is organized ...
    • Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2023)
      Article
      Open Access
      Background. Wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires pose great challenges to firefighting services and there is a growing need for self-protection and the creation of fire-adapted communities. Aim. A tool that can aid homeowners ...
    • Experimental analysis of real-scale burning tests of artificial fuel packs at the Wildland-Urban Interface 

      Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2022-02)
      Article
      Open Access
      The combustion of artificial fuels at Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) homeowner scale has been identified as a contributor to fire spread through a property, often leading to the ignition of structures, hence involving major ...
    • Fire performance of residential shipping containers designed with a shaft wall system 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Marimón Carvajal, Federico; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2022)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      seven story building made of shipping containers is planned to be built in Barcelona, Spain. This study mainly aimed to evaluate the fire performance of one of these residential shipping containers whose walls and ceiling ...
    • Fire risk analysis framework at the wildland-urban interface 

      Vacca, Pascale (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-20)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      (English) Wildfires that reach the border between the wildland and urban areas, defined as the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), have rapidly expanded in frequency and severity over the past few decades, and the number of ...
    • Fires at the wildland-industrial interface. Is there an emerging problem? 

      Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Paugam, Ronan Gabriel Michel; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2023-12-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Over the past years, wildfires have raged with unprecedented intensity across the world, becoming a growing problem, as weather conditions conductive to wildfire ignition and spread will increase in frequency and severity ...
    • Methodology for the analysis of structural vulnerability of WUI settlements 

      Vacca, Pascale; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Caballero Valero, David; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2023-10-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      As WUI fires have become a global concern, there is a growing need for engineering methodologies that lead to proactive fire management not only at the landscape level, but at all WUI scales. This paper presents a quantitative ...
    • Report on LPG infrastructure impact at the WUI microscale 

      Scarponi, Giordano Emrys; Vacca, Pascale; Salzano, Ernesto; Tugnoli, Alessandro; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Cozzani, Valerio (2019-09-30)
      Research report
      Open Access
    • Using fuzzy logic to evaluate fire vulnerability of dwellings located at the wildland-urban interface 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2022)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      WUI fires are posing great challenges to firefighting services, which are overwhelmed by the need to not only suppress the fire, but also protect the community. The need for self-protection is therefore growing, as is the ...
    • Vulnerability analysis to wildland- urban interface fires in metropolitan areas: an integrated approach 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Caballero Valero, David; Rodríguez Giralt, Israel; Arenas Conejo, Miriam; Morán Núñez, Francisca Josefa; Canaleta Garcia, Guillem; Vacca, Pascale; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2022)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Wildfires pose a growing threat to populated areas around the world and especially in the Mediterranean Basin. Numerous Mediterranean cities have typically developed neighbourhoods that expand into forest land in which ...
    • WUI fire risk mitigation in Europe: A performance-based design approach at home-owner level 

      Vacca, Pascale; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Caballero, David (Elsevier, 2020-12)
      Article
      Open Access
      Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) are becoming increasingly hazardous for life safety and property protection. Guidelines and standards for fire practitioners are needed in order to help WUI communities face this ...