<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ignition of Mediterranean Fuel Beds by Several Types of Firebrands</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fire Technology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">An experimental laboratory study on the probability of ignition and ignition time delay of new ﬁres for 11 pairs of burning embers and fuel beds of species common in Mediterranean forests is presented. For the no wind conditions of the present tests it was found that positive ignition was achieved only for embers with ﬂaming combustion. Fuel bed moisture content was identiﬁed as a very important parameter to assess probability of ignition and ignition time delay. In the range of the present tests it was found that ignition depended more on fuel bed properties than on ember characteristics.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>3</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">An interdisciplinary approach for integrating landscape management in the Common Agricultural Policy: Application to the municipality of Mertola, Southern Alentejo, Portugal</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ROLE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THE TRANSITION TO RURAL SUSTAINABILITY</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">I O S PRESS</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NIEUWE HEMWEG 6B, 1013 BG AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">254-260</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-58603-395-6</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper seeks to present the methodological approach of a case-study&lt;br/&gt;at a local scale, in the south of Portugal, where the European Union&lt;br/&gt;Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has significant impacts in terms of&lt;br/&gt;environment, socioeconomic and landscape aspects.&lt;br/&gt;The municipality of Mertola is located in the south-eastern part of the&lt;br/&gt;Alentejo Region, in a marginal area in relation to socio-economic&lt;br/&gt;parameters and agricultural production. As in the region as a whole, the&lt;br/&gt;dominant land use system is the Montado in a diversified pattern, which&lt;br/&gt;has in the last decades been subject. to successive significant changes,&lt;br/&gt;raising questions as to future landscape quality, identity and the&lt;br/&gt;required management. As in other European rural areas, the&lt;br/&gt;transformations in agriculture and the productive function resulted in&lt;br/&gt;changes in the landscape, which have impacts also on other functions&lt;br/&gt;such as conservation, environment balance, recreation, life support and&lt;br/&gt;preservation of cultural identity. These other functions attract each&lt;br/&gt;day more attention as a possible set of alternatives uses in marginal&lt;br/&gt;areas of Europe, such as Mertola. This actual context requires thus a&lt;br/&gt;landscape management based on integrated policies for the rural world,&lt;br/&gt;following the new perspectives of the CAP but also based on a deep&lt;br/&gt;knowledge of local landscape dynamics and requirements for preservation&lt;br/&gt;of identity. This project intends to evaluate and understand:&lt;br/&gt;(a) the changes that have occurred in the municipality in the last&lt;br/&gt;decades; and&lt;br/&gt;(b) how they have affected landscape pattern and also people's&lt;br/&gt;perception and connections to this landscape identity.&lt;br/&gt;The intent is to build up proposals for a more integrated and locally&lt;br/&gt;adapted formulation of CAP objectives and instruments. This paper will&lt;br/&gt;present the changes in landscape pattern and character registered in the&lt;br/&gt;study area for the last decades, the interdisciplinary methodology&lt;br/&gt;adopted, as well as the results of the first phase of the project.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>