Chapter A common approach to foster prevention and recovery of forest fires in Mediterranean Europe
Most countries of Mediterranean Europe are strongly affected by forest fires, with major socio-economic and environmental impacts that can spread over several regions and countries. A transnational approach allows creating synergies regarding resource sharing and problem-solving strategies. The acce...
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| author | Lourenço, Luciano Nunes, Adélia Fusilli, Lorenzo Laneve, Giovanni Oliveira, Sandra Sebastián López, Ana |
| author_browse | Fusilli, Lorenzo Laneve, Giovanni Lourenço, Luciano Nunes, Adélia Oliveira, Sandra Sebastián López, Ana |
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| description | Most countries of Mediterranean Europe are strongly affected by forest fires, with major socio-economic and environmental impacts that can spread over several regions and countries. A transnational approach allows creating synergies regarding resource sharing and problem-solving strategies. The access to high quality and up-to-date information is critical to improve fire hazard mitigation measures and promote comparable appraisals between different regions. Several collaborative initiatives have been implemented in Europe to foster research and service development, focusing on common issues amongst countries. The PREFER project was one of these initiatives, with the purpose of contributing to protect human communities and forests from fire hazard, by providing cartographic products through the implementation of a new systematic framework. The participation of end users, such as civil protection organizations and forest services, covering the Euro-Mediterranean region, was crucial to ensure the operational application of the mapping products. Fuel classification, daily fire hazard indices, vulnerability assessment and damage severity levels were some of the mapping applications developed for several test areas in Mediterranean Europe. This chapter illustrates the potential enhancements for forest fire management offered by this framework, bearing in mind the benefits of applying shared and harmonized approaches for common issues. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-702412024-03-28T10:53:39Z Chapter A common approach to foster prevention and recovery of forest fires in Mediterranean Europe Lourenço, Luciano Nunes, Adélia Fusilli, Lorenzo Laneve, Giovanni Oliveira, Sandra Sebastián López, Ana forest fires, Mediterranean Europe, common framework, collaboration, prevention, mitigation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general Most countries of Mediterranean Europe are strongly affected by forest fires, with major socio-economic and environmental impacts that can spread over several regions and countries. A transnational approach allows creating synergies regarding resource sharing and problem-solving strategies. The access to high quality and up-to-date information is critical to improve fire hazard mitigation measures and promote comparable appraisals between different regions. Several collaborative initiatives have been implemented in Europe to foster research and service development, focusing on common issues amongst countries. The PREFER project was one of these initiatives, with the purpose of contributing to protect human communities and forests from fire hazard, by providing cartographic products through the implementation of a new systematic framework. The participation of end users, such as civil protection organizations and forest services, covering the Euro-Mediterranean region, was crucial to ensure the operational application of the mapping products. Fuel classification, daily fire hazard indices, vulnerability assessment and damage severity levels were some of the mapping applications developed for several test areas in Mediterranean Europe. This chapter illustrates the potential enhancements for forest fire management offered by this framework, bearing in mind the benefits of applying shared and harmonized approaches for common issues. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2021-06-02T10:09:09Z 2017 chapter ONIX_20210602_10.5772/intechopen.68948_309 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49195 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70241 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49195/1/55484.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49195/1/55484.pdf InTechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.68948 10.5772/intechopen.68948 035ecc65-6737-43cf-a13a-6bdf67ce01f4 open access |
| spellingShingle | forest fires, Mediterranean Europe, common framework, collaboration, prevention, mitigation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general Lourenço, Luciano Nunes, Adélia Fusilli, Lorenzo Laneve, Giovanni Oliveira, Sandra Sebastián López, Ana Chapter A common approach to foster prevention and recovery of forest fires in Mediterranean Europe |
| title | Chapter A common approach to foster prevention and recovery of forest fires in Mediterranean Europe |
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| topic | forest fires, Mediterranean Europe, common framework, collaboration, prevention, mitigation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general |
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