Forest Fire Causes

Some of the causes of forest fires is the prolonged summers and days with basically no rain and high temperatures, which is reducing the moisture content. Along with those conditions heat from lighting, a spark from a match ( Vėlez, Ricardo) would be enough to start a very violent fire in Cyprus. Another factor to consider is wind which can be characterized by high speeds and strong power (Vėlez, Ricardo) this affects the humidity levels and they fall below 30 percent and that carries sparks greater distances. Fire is the most destructive single agent threatening Cyprus (Dimitrakopoulos, A.P) this is because of the long dry summers and the frequent strong winds and how flammable the vegetation is there, that can favor the outbreak of the fires

The damages forest fires are causing is devastating part of that is because they regularly sweep across the region. Forest vegetation is now reaching homes at the perimeter of villages (Athanasiou, Miltiadis) allowing fires to reach the villages and homes and burn them as well as the forest. 20 percent of the forest is composed of mainly coniferous (Forest Fire Protection in Cyprus) like pines and cedars who will thrive and spread their seedlings from the fires. Fire risk it is the function of wildlife fire hazard agent, it is growing at exponential rates because of the increasing

Climate change is increasing the reduction of coasts because it is from human induced pressure. 38 percent of coastlines are subjected to erosion because of human activities (Zachariadis, Theodoros). Erosion is a greater threat than flooding because of the sandy gravel beaches found in Cyprus (Sundseth, Kerstin). Roughly half of the coastline is subjected to coastal erosion, mostly because of human activities. With urbanisation and tourism development increasing (Sundseth, Kerstin) it is also contributing to coastal erosion rates. Combining the rates of coastal erosion being increased from urbanisation and tourism development the abandonment of small scale farming practices put pressure on the region's biodiversity (Sundseth, Kerstin).

Impacts of coastal erosion include flooding and flood damages, damages from storms, soil erosion (Zachariadis, Theodoros), and degradation of coastal ecosystems and the wetlands. Erosion of the coasts will cause a rise in the sea level and submerge the low lying coastlines (Zachariadis, Theodoros) half a meter rise in the sea-level will expose the population to coastal flooding. Foreseen erosion and flooding is to expected to cause damage to the buildings on the coast or near the coast. This will result in major economic losses (Zachariadis,