Climate change and
global warming are phenomena that are progressively affecting the
planet.
Temperature changes bring about various threats in distinct sectors and
environments of
human society, among them, threats to
health secondary to extreme
temperatures and
natural disasters. Thus, it is constituted as a global threat to
biodiversity and the
human population, given that it
affects habitat conditions, as well as causes an increase in
forest fires as consequence of increased
temperatures and diminished precipitations.
Forest fires have attracted
attention not only because of their ecological and environmental consequences, but also in
production and economic aspects and in relation with the
health of people potentially exposed, given that these place
populations at
environmental risks, like
fire,
smoke, and others derived from the
combustion of
wood and
chemical products that can be released.