The European Forest Fire Information System in the context of environmental policies of the European Union

San-Miguel-Ayanz, Jesús; Schulte, E.; Schmuck, G.; Camia, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.08.012

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“…Southern European countries like Spain have many wildland fires each year, causing enormous losses in terms of human lives, environmental damage and economic disruptions (Pereira et al 2011, Salis et al 2013, San Miguel-Ayanz et al 2013. Over the last years wildland fires became more and more extreme and usually exceeding firefighting capabilities (Miralles et al 2010).…”

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Wildland fire typologies and extreme temperatures in NE Spain

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Molina-Terrén³

2017

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Understanding instrumental factors dealing with the development of large wildland fires is a need. Fire spread typologies and extreme temperature days were studied in the 1978-2012 period in Aragón (NE Spain). Temperature was examined at 850 hPa to characterize the low troposphere state and wildfires were grouped in three fire spread typologies: convective fires, wind-driven fires and topography-driven fires. The analysis of wildland fire propagation typologies revealed that convective fires burned the majority of total area burned, resulting in the larger and the most closely typology related to high temperature days (HTDs). Drought Code (DC) correlation with HTDs and wildland fire size was weak.

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Wildland fire typologies and extreme temperatures in NE Spain

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2017

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“…The SFM model is calibrated as described above over a nine-year period 2000-2008 using burned area statistics reported in EFFIS (San-Miguel-Ayanz et al 2013b) and, as an alternative for comparison, the Global Fires Emissions Database (GFED) version 3 ; Van der Werf et al 2010). These are different products in terms of spatial extent (regional vs. global), and methods for data acquisition, processing, and validation.…”

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“…With respect to forest fires, the impacts of warmer and drier weather observed in the past are expected to become stronger in the future under projected climate change (Pechony and Shindell 2010;Rego et al 2010;Schelhaas et al 2010;San-Miguel-Ayanz et al 2013b). Fires are one of the main disturbances that affect terrestrial ecosystems and have profound consequences on global climate, air quality, and vegetation structure and functioning (Bowman et al 2009;Marlier et al 2012).…”

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Forest fires and adaptation options in Europe

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This paper presents a quantitative assessment of adaptation options in the context of forest fires in Europe under projected climate change. A standalone fire model (SFM) based on a state-of-the-art large-scale forest fire modelling algorithm is used to explore fuel removal through prescribed burnings and improved fire suppression as adaptation options. The climate change projections are provided by three climate models reflecting the SRES A2 scenario. The SFM's modelled burned areas for selected test countries in Europe show satisfying agreement with observed data coming from two different sources (European Forest Fire Information System and Global Fire Emissions Database). Our estimation of the potential increase in burned areas in Europe under ''no adaptation'' scenario is about 200 % by 2090 (compared with 2000-2008). The application of prescribed burnings has the potential to keep that increase below 50 %. Improvements in fire suppression might reduce this impact even further, e.g. boosting the probability of putting out a fire within a day by 10 % would result in about a 30 % decrease in annual burned areas. By taking more adaptation options into consideration, such as using agricultural fields as fire breaks, behavioural changes, and long-term options, burned areas can be potentially reduced further than projected in our analysis.

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“…Assim, os incêndios são extintos o mais rápido possível e apenas uma pequena porcentagem escapa do ataque inicial e das operações de combate a incêndios subsequentes (SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ et al, 2013). Em outro estudo europeu, nos países alpinos, Wastl et al (2013) mostram que grandes incêndios individuais ocorreram principalmente onde as operações de combate são mais difíceis.…”

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Avaliação Da Eficiência De Combate Aos Incêndios Florestais Em Unidades De Conservação Brasileiras

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Torres

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ResumoO objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a eficiência de combate aos incêndios florestais em unidades de conservação brasileiras no período de 2008 a 2012. Foram utilizados três parâmetros principais para se avaliar a eficiência de combate: a área queimada, em que se avaliou a eficiência, distribuindo os incêndios ocorridos por classes de tamanho, e se observou a área queimada média por incêndio; o tempo para o ataque e sua distribuição por classe de tempo, em que se avaliou a eficiência de mobilização dos combatentes em termos Abstract Assessment of firefighting efficiency in Brazilian conservation units.The objective of this study was to assess the firefighting efficiency in Brazilian conservation units from 2008 to 2012. Three main parameters were used to evaluate the combat efficiency: burned area, in which efficiency was evaluated, the fires were distributed by size classes, and the average burned area by fire was observed; time for attack and its distribution by time class, in which the firefighters mobilization efficiency was evaluated in terms of average time from detection until the first fire attack; and time of combat, in which the average time of combat and its distribution by class of time of combat were evaluated. In the analysed period, Brazil presented a low combat efficiency. The average burned area in Brazilian protected areas was 613.61 ha in this period. The average time for attack and the average time of combat were 194.82 and 1,012.51 minutes, respectively. The main difficulty in the study was the lack of complete data of the Record of Fire Occurrence (ROI). Keywords: Fire, Brazil, conservation units, ROI. INTRODUÇÃOIncêndios resultam em mudanças drásticas em todos os tipos de ecossistemas florestais (ZAITSEV et al., 2016). Eles têm forte impacto tanto sobre as condições bióticas como as abióticas (ADÁMEK et al., 2015). Nas Unidades de Conservação (UC), áreas ambientais destinadas primordialmente a proteção, os incêndios florestais são uma grave perturbação, que pode colocar em risco os processos ambientais e a biodiversidade. Na grande maioria das UCs brasileiras, não existe um planejamento adequado visando à prevenção e ao combate a incêndios (BONTEMPO et al., 2011).Grande parte dessa dificuldade no planejamento está relacionada a fatores incertos e altamente variáveis, tais como condições meteorológicas, ação antrópica, comportamento do fogo e propagação e seus efeitos. Estes são a base da gestão de incêndios e decisões políticas, através de múltiplos níveis e escalas, e são responsáveis pela eficiência dos recursos destinados ao combate e supressão (PACHECO et al., 2015). Em contrapartida, com uma quantidade limitada de equipamentos e recursos financeiros e humanos, os gestores florestais devem decidir a aplicação mais eficiente de subsídios em ações, como prevenção (ex. campanhas de educação ambiental), gestão de combustível (ex. queima prescrita e tratamentos mecânicos), pré-supressão (ex. planejamento e preparação,

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The European Forest Fire Information System in the context of environmental policies of the European Union

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Wildland fire typologies and extreme temperatures in NE Spain

Wildland fire typologies and extreme temperatures in NE Spain

Forest fires and adaptation options in Europe

Avaliação Da Eficiência De Combate Aos Incêndios Florestais Em Unidades De Conservação Brasileiras

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