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Book (stand-alone)Community Based Fire Management in Spain 2005
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No results found.Today’s urbanized societies tend to asks for wildfire exclusion through the strengthening of suppression resources to the extent that available budgets can buy. Unfortunately however, year after year, the experience shows that only a better understanding of the role of fire in the forest ecosystems can help to prevent catastrophic fires. In many places the rural land abandonment is creating the conditions for large fires, because of the huge fuel accumulations that are spreading into former agri cultural lands. To establish data on burning by local people their aims and motivations have been analyzed. The information gathered concludes that 60 percent of the total number of fires in the country can be prevented if controlled burning is carried out together with the farmers instead of just forbidding them from burning. Therefore, awareness rising or sensitization programmes in the rural villages are crucial for the success in fire management when remembering that the local population a re those who cause the fire damages and also remembering that training in controlled burning with the help of specialized teams (EPRIF1.) are organized in the areas where the number of fires is high. Besides the EPRIF activities also other programs are carried out to promote cooperation with volunteers living in small villages by e.g. visiting them and providing economical incentives to them when they become integrated in permanent fire management organizations supervised by the Administration. Urban and rural people can cooperate together in these organizations to prevent fires. -
Book (series)Integrated fire management voluntary guidelines
Principles and strategic actions
2024Also available in:
No results found.Damaging wildfires in many parts of the world in recent years have prompted an increase in demand for technical support for integrated fire management. As part of the response, FAO and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Global Fire Management Hub (Fire Hub), which was launched at the 8th International Wildland Fire Conference in May 2023. The aim of the Fire Hub is to strengthen the capacity of countries to implement integrated fire management and reduce the negative effects of wildfires on people, landscapes and the global climate. One of the Fire Hub’s first activities was to update FAO’s Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines: Principles and strategic actions, which was first published in 2006, to guide implementation of integrated fire management at the landscape level, enhance best fire-management practices, including cultural practices for sustainable land use, and engage diverse stakeholders.This second edition of the guidelines, now titled, Integrated Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines: Principles and strategic actions, benefited from contributions from the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), the International Liaison Committee of the International Wildland Fire Conferences, and Regional Fire Management Resource Centers of the GFMC’s Global Wildland Fire Network. In addition, FAO engaged with experts in countries and specialized partner institutions for insights into new developments and solutions in integrated fire management. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFire-smart forest management
Strengthening knowledge to combat wildfires and boost wildfire resilience
2019Also available in:
No results found.The increased frequency and intensity of wildfires is driven by longer fire seasons, exacerbated by climate change, with severe implications for water quality and supply, livelihoods and biodiversity. Damage and loss from wildfires can be reduced by investing in fire-smart resilience and management systems. The issue is not well understood, so governments and institutions tend to take a reactive approach to wildfires when they should be implementing sustainable integrated fire-management systems that reduce risk, enhance preparedness, enact a fast and safe response plan and aid quick recovery. FAO will strengthen integrated fire-management systems based on a country-by-country analysis, systematically applying a frame of reference to enact “fire-smart” management policies, plans and practices. Understanding wildfire risk is the first step towards reduction.
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