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  1. Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Napoli Federico II, Portici, Italy

    Davide Ascoli & Francesco Giannino

  2. Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Naples, Italy

    Lucia Russo

  3. School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Constantinos Siettos

  4. Research Centre in Biodiversity and Resource Genetics, University of Porto, Vila do Conde, Portugal

    Francisco Moreira

  5. CEABN/InBIO, Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Francisco Moreira

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Ascoli, D., Russo, L., Giannino, F., Siettos, C., Moreira, F. (2018). Firebreak and Fuelbreak. In: Manzello, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8_70-1

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