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larger number of cases. That means, more concretely, that there are certain possibil-
ities of prognostic modelling under the existing notions. Therefore, at this moment
it seems far simple to prognosticate when forest fires are going to happen, but
considerably greater problem is to define where they are going to appear concretely.
“

I think that these problems can only be solved by a joint interdisciplinary effort
of open-minded scientists” (Landschieidt, 2000 ).

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