Allocating fuel breaks to optimally protect structures in the wildland-urban interface

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  International Journal of Wildland Fire

• Publication date

  2011-03-07

• Fields of study

  Geography, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1071/WF09041
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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