Integrating flora, fauna, and indigenous practices into spatial optimization for prescribed burning

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 379, С. 124833 - 124833

Опубликована: Март 9, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Rising wildfire risks in Europe fuelled by global warming

Research Square (Research Square), Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 3, 2025

Recent extreme wildfires worldwide have raised concerns about the accelerating impacts of climate change. Assessing socioeconomic is challenging due to uncertainties in risk drivers and observational records. Here, we implement a high-resolution data modelling framework quantify fire season length, population exposure weather, wildfire economic damage Europe for range global warming scenarios. Climate change expected lengthen across Europe, particularly southern regions already prone fire-conducive weather. While south faces extended periods high danger, central northern will be increasingly exposed adverse weather conditions. Present direct damages €2.4 billion per year could nearly double with 3°C or more. Mediterranean bear highest burden, annual maximum reaching 5–10% their regional economy. Our findings advocate stringent mitigation, fire-resistant ecosystems, resilient communities near fire-prone areas.

Язык: Английский

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Extreme Fire Events in Wildland–Urban Interface Areas: A Review of the Literature Concerning Determinants for Risk Governance

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(10), С. 4505 - 4505

Опубликована: Май 15, 2025

Governance plays a critical role at the intersection of disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change (CC). As CC increases frequency intensity disasters, so DRM policies must consider potential impacts integrate resilience measures. Over past decade, extreme wildfires in wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas have left devastating effects for local economies, development, environmental protection, continuity government operations worldwide, prompting all actors to work same direction face its changing context. This systematic review literature aims analyze research trends on wildfire governance WUI during 2021–2024 identify key determinants, thereby offering robust foundation guide technical discussions support decision-making processes development planning, land use regulation, DRM. The study is based application Preferred Reporting Items Systematic reviews Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) declaration allow identification, selection, analysis, systematization 68 articles from Scopus database through three bibliographic search equations, which were then categorized using software text mining natural language processing NLP (VantagePoint 15.2) four pillars that structure governance: political management, management. Within this framework, ten determinants are highlighted, encompassing aspects such as regulatory frameworks, institutional coordination, information systems, capacities, community engagement, perception, financial resources, accountability mechanisms, adaptive cross-sectoral integration. These findings provide conceptual basis strengthening approaches increasing risk.

Язык: Английский

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Integrated Fire Management and Closer to Nature Forest Management at the Landscape Scale as a Holistic Approach to Foster Forest Resilience to Wildfires

Open Research Europe, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 4, С. 131 - 131

Опубликована: Май 19, 2025

Unprecedented wildfires are expected to remain a major challenge for Europe in the future due their increasing frequency and intensity. However, there is currently no standardized framework managing wildfire risk, with common definition of integrated risk management, lack consensus within sustainable forest management (SFM), over 20 (semi-)synonyms used Continuous Cover Forestry, such as Close-to-Nature Forest management. This open letter highlights importance implementing two key approaches, Integrated Fire Management (IFM) EU’s proposed Closer-To-Nature (CTNFM) approach spatiotemporal connectivity face human natural induced drivers that enhance severity. The document discusses options address challenges, associated impacts degradation biodiversity loss. It emphasizes urgent need action by EU Member States considering bottom-up (local regional national level), political commitment, public awareness these issues effectively. Key topics covered include adaptation mitigation strategies plant species, impact climate change land use on today’s uncharacteristic fire regimes conditions. Silvicultural closer-to-nature practices, where needed appropriate, promotion regeneration enhancement native or non-native broadleaves, mixed stand composition strategic tree spacing examined means reduce spread fires wildfire-prone areas. also benefits multifaceted scale SFM includes prevention, ecological resilience, habitat conservation resource Options presented policy makers relevant stakeholders support through collaboration, enforcement, stewardship, monitoring capabilities, education, research support, international cooperation. integration IFM CTNFM can improve mitigation, preparedness, adaptive capacity, thereby promoting resilient landscapes communities long-term.

Язык: Английский

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A Comprehensive Framework for Forest Restoration after Forest Fires in Theory and Practice: A Systematic Review

Forests, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 13(9), С. 1354 - 1354

Опубликована: Авг. 25, 2022

Incidences of forest fires have increased in recent decades largely as a result climate change and human factors, resulting great environmental socioeconomic losses. Post-fire restoration is therefore indispensable for maintaining ecological integrity the sustainability affected landscapes. In this study, we conduct systematic review available literature on past two (2002–2022) propose comprehensive framework consideration after occurrence fires. The Preferred Reporting Items Systemic Reviews Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) model was adopted where three academic databases (Scopus, CAB Direct, Web Science), Google Scholar search engine, specialized websites were used searches. A final list 36 records from initial 732 considered study screening stage subsequent inclusion/exclusion articles per stipulated eligibility criteria. findings reveal dearth information field post-fire an integrated, balanced, manner, there no single methodology or unified protocol that guides restoration. There also notable bias geographical distribution relevant studies influenced by economic prosperity, political stability, scientific technical advancement. This recommends 6-criteria with 29 indicators based reviewed studies. criteria integrate environmental, economic, social, cultural aesthetic, management, infrastructure, education objectives their design implementation better outcomes achieving goals.

Язык: Английский

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Wildfire smoke and health impacts: a narrative review

Jornal de Pediatria, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Exploring Prescribed Fire Severity Effects on Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Taxonomic and Functional Community Composition

Fire, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 6(9), С. 366 - 366

Опубликована: Сен. 19, 2023

Prescribed fire is a management tool that frequently used to foster biodiversity. Simultaneously, insects provide essential ecosystem services are globally declining. Within the pyroentomology literature, there mixed reports of positive and negative effects prescribed fires have on insect communities. This likely due not accounting for heterogeneity created by severity. To better understand severity communities, we multispectral reflectance data collected Sentinel-2 methodically quantify compared ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) taxonomic functional community composition responses between an unburned site two burned sites with contrasting impacts. We found 23 species 30 morphological, physiological, phenological, ecological traits each species. our moderate had different compositions from both high-severity sites. Surprisingly, did find strong difference in or Our results encourage future studies account severity, which will help guide conservation managers make more accurate decisions predictions about

Язык: Английский

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Microbial composition and function in reclaimed mine sites along a reclamation chronosequence become increasingly similar to undisturbed reference sites

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 920, С. 170996 - 170996

Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)

AMBIO, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 53(10), С. 1433 - 1453

Опубликована: Май 25, 2024

Living with wildfires in an era of climate change requires adaptation and weaving together many forms knowledge. Empirical evidence knowledge co-production wildfire management is lacking Mediterranean European areas. We explored how local ecological can be leveraged to reduce risk through pathways process the Montseny massif wider Tordera River watershed Catalonia, Spain: area stewarded forestry agriculture, tourism, nature conservation, fire management. combined different methods (e.g., a timeline Three Horizons framework) throughout three workshops agents co-create risk, integrating historical perspective landscape while envisioning desirable futures. Our results showed that other soft strategies contribute innovative sustainable development initiatives also mitigate risk. The approach holds much potential inform policies support wildfire-based community diverse contexts.

Язык: Английский

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Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects

Fire Ecology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 20(1)

Опубликована: Сен. 13, 2024

Язык: Английский

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