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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 Nikos Koutsias 15 Lachlan Mccaw Owen Price 16 Juli G Pausas 17 Eric Rigolot 18 Scott Stephens 19, 20 Cagatay Tavsanoglu 21 Vramon Vallejo 1 Brianwvan Wilgen 22, 23 Gavriil Xanthopoulos 24 Fernandez Paulo M 25
1 Sch Agron, CIBIO InBIO
2 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Torino]
3 USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
4 Swinburne University of Technology [Melbourne]
5 UCLM - University of Castilla-La Mancha
6 Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Technical University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisboa, Portugal
7 Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN – InBIO), School of Agriculture
8 Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
9 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
10 Center for Climate Change and Resilience Research (CR2)
11 Universidad Austral de Chile
12 FCAyF - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales [La Plata]
13 Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia
14 IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture
15 University of Patras [Patras]
16 Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, University of Wollongong
17 Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación
18 URFM 629 - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes [Avignon]
19 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY USA
20 University of California [Berkeley]
21 Hacettepe University = Hacettepe Üniversitesi
22 Stellenbosch University
23 Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology
24 HAO Demeter - Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter
25 CITAB - Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biológicas
Abstract : During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence ofmegafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs).Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies in MCRsaredestinedtofail.Focusedonfire suppression, these policies largely ignore ongoing climatewarming and landscape-scale buildup of fuels.The result is a ‘firefighting trap’ that contributes to ongoing fuel accumulation precluding suppression under extremefire weather, and resulting in more severe and larger fires.Webelieve that a ‘business as usual’ approach to wildfire inMCRswill not solve the fire problem, and recommend that policy and expenditures be rebalanced between suppression and mitigation of the negative impacts offire.This requires a paradigm shift: policy effectiveness should not be primarilymeasured as a function of area burned (as it usually is), but rather as a function of avoided socio-ecological damage and loss.
Keywords : California Chile Australia Mediterranean-type regions South Africa wildfires management policy
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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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