Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm
Extreme wildfires are a major environmental and socioeconomic threat across many regions worldwide. The limits of fire suppression-centred strategies have become evident even in technologically well-equipped countries, due to high-cost and a legacy of landscape transformations, yet with ultimately l...
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| Publication date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat de Lleida (UdL) |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102458 https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/467335 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Wildfire drivers Fire prevention Suppression Integrated fire management Risk Megafires |
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| author | Wunder , Sven |
| author2 | Calkin , Dave E Charlton , Val Feder , Sarah Martínez de Arano , Inazio Moore , Peter Rodríguez y Silva , Francisco Tacconi , Luca Vega García, Cristina |
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| author_browse | Calkin , Dave E Charlton , Val Feder , Sarah Martínez de Arano , Inazio Moore , Peter Rodríguez y Silva , Francisco Tacconi , Luca Vega García, Cristina Wunder , Sven |
| author_facet | Wunder , Sven Calkin , Dave E Charlton , Val Feder , Sarah Martínez de Arano , Inazio Moore , Peter Rodríguez y Silva , Francisco Tacconi , Luca Vega García, Cristina |
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| description | Extreme wildfires are a major environmental and socioeconomic threat across many regions worldwide. The limits of fire suppression-centred strategies have become evident even in technologically well-equipped countries, due to high-cost and a legacy of landscape transformations, yet with ultimately low-efficient solutions vis-à-vis extreme fires. Many practitioners and policymakers thus increasingly recognize the need to develop novel, integrated fire management approaches that shift emphasis towards the root causes of extreme fires. Here we provide from the socioeconomic angle a collective, science-informed vision about to what extent landscapes and people could become more fire-resilient through integrated fire prevention strategies. Based on our insights from around the globe, we highlight the need for interdisciplinary approaches, multiple stakeholder perspectives, and systems thinking, so as to break down a wicked problem with complex linkages into manageable nodes of information. We illustrate this, using Mediterranean forests as an example. New fire regimes will predictably make our societies more exposed and vulnerable to the risk of extreme wildfires. Proactive, innovative strategies are thus needed to provide adaptive and cost-efficient policy responses, whether based on direct changes in landscape and fuel-load management, or indirect changes in rural development models. |
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| spelling | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm Wunder , Sven Calkin , Dave E Charlton , Val Feder , Sarah Martínez de Arano , Inazio Moore , Peter Rodríguez y Silva , Francisco Tacconi , Luca Vega García, Cristina Wildfire drivers Fire prevention Suppression Integrated fire management Risk Megafires Extreme wildfires are a major environmental and socioeconomic threat across many regions worldwide. The limits of fire suppression-centred strategies have become evident even in technologically well-equipped countries, due to high-cost and a legacy of landscape transformations, yet with ultimately low-efficient solutions vis-à-vis extreme fires. Many practitioners and policymakers thus increasingly recognize the need to develop novel, integrated fire management approaches that shift emphasis towards the root causes of extreme fires. Here we provide from the socioeconomic angle a collective, science-informed vision about to what extent landscapes and people could become more fire-resilient through integrated fire prevention strategies. Based on our insights from around the globe, we highlight the need for interdisciplinary approaches, multiple stakeholder perspectives, and systems thinking, so as to break down a wicked problem with complex linkages into manageable nodes of information. We illustrate this, using Mediterranean forests as an example. New fire regimes will predictably make our societies more exposed and vulnerable to the risk of extreme wildfires. Proactive, innovative strategies are thus needed to provide adaptive and cost-efficient policy responses, whether based on direct changes in landscape and fuel-load management, or indirect changes in rural development models. We appreciate support from Diputació de Barcelona and the Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO). (Not involved in research design). Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102458 https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/467335 |
| spellingShingle | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm Wunder , Sven Wildfire drivers Fire prevention Suppression Integrated fire management Risk Megafires |
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| title | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm |
| title_full | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm |
| title_fullStr | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm |
| title_short | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm |
| title_sort | Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm |
| topic | Wildfire drivers Fire prevention Suppression Integrated fire management Risk Megafires |
| topic_facet | Wildfire drivers Fire prevention Suppression Integrated fire management Risk Megafires |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102458 https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/467335 |