116 research outputs found
Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed
PerspectiveDuring the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence ofmegafires in
Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs).Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies in
MCRs are destined to fail.Focused on fire suppression, these policies largely ignore ongoing climate warming
and landscape-scale buildup of fuels.The result is a ‘firefighting trap’ that contributes to ongoing fuel
accumulation precluding suppression under extreme fire weather, and resulting in more severe and larger
fires.We believe that a ‘business as usual’ approach to wildfire in MCRs will not solve the fire problem, and
recommend that policy and expenditures be rebalanced between suppression and mitigation of the negative
impacts of fire.This requires a paradigm shift: policy effectiveness should not be primarily measured as a
function of area burned (as it usually is), but rather as a function of avoided socio-ecological damage and lossinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Landscape - wildfire interactions in southern Europe: implications for landscape management
ReviewEvery year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern Europe,
causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use changes in the last decades
have increased fire risk and danger. In this paper we review the available scientific knowledge on the
relationships between landscape and wildfires in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on its
application for defining landscape management guidelines and policies that could be adopted in order
to promote landscapes with lower fire hazard. The main findings are that (1) socio-economic drivers
have favoured land cover changes contributing to increasing fire hazard in the last decades, (2) large
wildfires are becoming more frequent, (3) increased fire frequency is promoting homogeneous landscapes
covered by fire-prone shrublands; (4) landscape planning to reduce fuel loads may be successful
only if fire weather conditions are not extreme. The challenges to address these problems and the
policy and landscape management responses that should be adopted are discussed, along with major
knowledge gapsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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Adaptation des forêts au changement climatique : menaces et opportunités
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Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinea survival after wildfire. First results
Document interne *INRA, Station de Sylviculture, Avignon (FRA) Diffusion du document : INRA, Station de Sylviculture, Avignon (FRA)International audienc
Diagnostic precoce de la survie du pin d'Alep et du pin pignon apres incendie
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