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Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed
Francisco Moreira
1
Davide Ascoli
2
Hugh Safford
3
Mark A Adams
4
José M Moreno
5
José Mc Pereira
6
Filipe Xcatry
7
Juan Armesto
8
William Bond
9
Mauro E González
10, 11, 12, 13
Thomas Curt
14, 15
Nikos Koutsias
16
Lachlan Mccaw
Owen Price
17
Juli G Pausas
18
Eric Rigolot
19
Scott Stephens
20, 21
Cagatay Tavsanoglu
22
Vramon Vallejo
1
Brianwvan Wilgen
23, 24
Gavriil Xanthopoulos
25
Fernandez Paulo M
26
William Bond 9
Author
Mauro E González 10, 11, 12, 13
Author
Thomas Curt 14, 15
Author
Nikos Koutsias 16
Author Employer institution : University of Patras [Patras]
Lachlan Mccaw
Author
Owen Price 17
Author
Juli G Pausas 18
Author
Eric Rigolot 19
Author IdHAL : eric-rigolot
Scott Stephens 20, 21
Author
Cagatay Tavsanoglu 22
Author
Vramon Vallejo 1
Author
Brianwvan Wilgen 23, 24
Author
Gavriil Xanthopoulos 25
Author
Fernandez Paulo M 26
Author
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Torino] ( Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35 - 10125 Torino - Italy)
- UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (Via Verdi, 8 10124 Torino Italie - Italy)
3
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (United States)
- USDA - United States Department of Agriculture (United States)
4
Swinburne University of Technology [Melbourne] (Australia)
5
UCLM - University of Castilla-La Mancha (Paseo de la Universidad 4 13071 Ciudad Real Spain - Spain)
7
Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN – InBIO), School of Agriculture (Portugal)
- University of Lisbon (Lisbon Portugal - Portugal)
9
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa - South Africa)
11
Universidad Austral de Chile (Independencia 641, Valdivia, Región de los Ríos, Chili - Chile)
12
FCAyF - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales [La Plata] (Diagonal 113 Nº 469 esquina 117, La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires - Argentina)
- UNLP - Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (125, Güemes 124, Ensenada, Buenos Aires - Argentina)
13
Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia (Chile)
14
IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (France)
15
RECOVER - Risques, Ecosystèmes, Vulnérabilité, Environnement, Résilience (3275 Route de Cézanne CS 40061 13182 Aix en Provence Cedex 5 - France)
- AMU - Aix Marseille Université (Aix-Marseille Université Jardins du Pharo 58 Boulevard Charles Livon 13284 Marseille cedex 7 - France)
- INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement : UMR1467 (France)
16
University of Patras [Patras] (265 04 Rio Achaia - Greece)
18
CIDE - Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificacion ( Montcada, 46113 Valencia - Spain)
- CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (Spanish National Research Council Serrano 117, 28006 Madrid - Spain)
19
URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (INRAE Domaine Saint-Paul - Site Agroparc 228 route de l'Aérodrome CS40509 84914 AVIGNON CEDEX 9 - France)
20
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY USA (United States)
- Partenaires IRSTEA (Cette structure regroupe l'ensemble des structures créées pour la reprise des données Irstea Publications - France)
21
University of California [Berkeley] (Berkeley, CA - United States)
- University of California (United States)
22
Hacettepe University = Hacettepe Üniversitesi (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Rektörlüğü Sıhhiye / ANKARA - Turkey)
23
Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch University
Private Bag X1,
Matieland, 7602,
Stellenbosch, South Africa - South Africa)
24
Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology (South Africa)
- Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch University Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa - South Africa)
25
HAO Demeter - Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter (Athens - Greece)
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CITAB - Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biológicas (Apartado 1013 5001-801 Vila Real - Portugal)
- UTAD - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro [Portugal] (Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real - Portugal)
Abstract : During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of megafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs). Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies in MCRs are destined to fail. Focused on fire suppression, these policies largely ignore ongoing climate warming and landscape-scale buildup of fuels.The result is a ‘firefighting trap’ that contributes to ongoing fuel accumulation precluding suppression under extreme fire weather, and resulting in more severe and larger fires. We believe that a ‘business as usual’ approach to wildfire in MCRs will not solve the fire problem, and recommend that policy and expenditures be rebalanced between suppression and mitigation of the negative impacts of fire.This requires a paradigm shift: policy effectiveness should not be primarily measured as a function of area burned (as it usually is), but rather as a function of avoided socio-ecological damage and loss.
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Contributor : Eric Rigolot Connect in order to contact the contributor
Submitted on : Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 8:46:46 AM
Last modification on : Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 6:50:14 PM
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- HAL Id : hal-02869445, version 1
- DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/ab541e
- WOS : 000507915200001
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Francisco Moreira, Davide Ascoli, Hugh Safford, Mark A Adams, José M Moreno, et al.. Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 2020, 15, ⟨10.1088/1748-9326/ab541e⟩. ⟨hal-02869445⟩
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