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An intercultural vision for integrated fire management in Venezuela [PDF]
Tropical Forest Issues, 2022 Climate change and governance conditions have made wildfires a critical issue that transcends academic and technical issues and enters socio-political arenas. In Latin America, indigenous peoples, peasant communities, peri-urban populations, firefighters, biodiversity and ecosystems are all vulnerable and threatened. This article describes the advances,
Bilbao, Bibiana Alejandra +11 more
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Integrated spatial fire and forest management planning
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2010 Forest management planners usually treat potential fire loss estimates as exogenous parameters in their timber production planning processes. When they do so, they do not account for the fact that forest access road construction, timber harvesting, and silvicultural activities can alter a landscape’s vegetation or fuel composition, and they ignore the
Acuna, M +4 more
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FireThis study analyzes forest fire legislation and policies in the Andean Community of Nations (ACN)—Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia—focusing on prevention and control.
Liliana Correa-Quezada +4 more
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Integrated fire management concepts for promoting and stabilizing resilient ecosystems
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020 Fire is a transforming and modeling element of natural environments, used by humans as a management tool for thousands of years. Its controlled use is indicated, and has been defended by specialists, for the borders of protected areas with native vegetation under anthropic pressure.
Almeida Rocha, Daniel
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FIRE PARADOX: An innovative and integrated approach to wildland fire management
, 2008 The social, economical and environmental consequences of the current wildfire regime in southern Europe are severe, and are likely to aggravate and geographically expand in the near future. FIRE PARADOX seeks to contribute to the mitigation of fire impacts by creating the scientific and technical foundation for practices and policies consistent with ...
Rigolot, Eric
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Mathematical Model of Integral Fire Risk Management
, 2021 In the given work the analysis of features of mathematical model of management of integral fire risk is carried out, and also grouping of administrative-territorial units of Ukraine on level of integral fire risk by means of the cluster analysis is carried out. As a result of the analysis, all regions of Ukraine were divided into 4 groups.
Svitlana Bordiuzhenko +5 more
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Living With Fire and the Need for Diversity
Earth's Future, 2022 The 2018–2021 wildfire seasons were a glimpse of the future: deadly damaging fires in Mediterranean regions and high fire activity outside the typical fire season, also in temperate and boreal areas.
C. R. Stoof, N. Kettridge
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Prescribed fire in Mediterranean pinus pinaster management
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 Prescribed fire treatments strategically allocated in time and space play a key role in forest management to reduce extend and severity of forest fires.
Juan Ramón Molina +2 more
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Integration of Fire Risk in a Sustainable Forest Management Model [PDF]
Forests, 2017 In Mediterranean areas, forest fires are a considerable risk most years. The seasonality of the climate with a dry summer, high temperatures and low rainfall (which implies increased flammability of materials) is one of the main factors in the ignition and progression of fires.
Costa Freitas, Maria de Belem +2 more
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Leadership and Network of Women in Fire from Latin America
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 Governments, agencies, fire managers, and communities across Latin America recognize fire as a critical natural process. Life and safety, property and economics, biodiversity and conservation, society and culture; all drive response and relationship to ...
Jayleen Vera, Rossana Landa Perera
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