Global Rural Fires: Future Approaches Based on Climate Change, Invasive Species and Agro–Silvo–Pastoral Interactions

Dear Colleagues,

With climate change on the agenda, several problems arise, and it is necessary to find solutions for their resolution and mitigation. Among the various consequences of climate change, rural fires are starting to hit repeatedly, not only in the areas where they traditionally proliferated, as is the case of regions with a Mediterranean climate but also in other regions in latitudes that are not used to this type of occurrences, as is the case in more northern regions, such as Scandinavia, Alaska or the British Isles. Knowledge about the causes and consequences, both from an environmental perspective and from the perspective of direct impacts on populations, through the analysis of socio-economic data and their evolution with the influence of the occurrence of rural fires, assumes increasing importance. The main objective of this Special Issue is to gather a set of relevant information which contributes to the perception and understanding of the evolution of rural fires on a global scale, of their impacts on the economic, social and environmental components, while at the same time launching the debate on the measures and actions to be implemented to change the trend towards an increase in the number of occurrences, recurrence and severity. Thus, the topics to be addressed in this Special Issue are the following, although others can be considered:

• Rural fires;
• Impacts of rural fires;
• Relationship between climate change and occurrence of rural fires;
• Forest management and occurrence of rural fires;
• Agroforestry management models to minimize the occurrence of rural fires;
• Challenges for the urban-rural interface given the increase in the occurrence, recurrence and severity of rural fires;
• Impact of rural fires on the dispersion of invasive species;
• Analysis of trends for the occurrence, recurrence and severity of rural fires;
• Methodologies for acquisition, analysis and treatment of data on rural dwellings;
• Methods of prevention, surveillance and fighting rural fires.

Dr. Leonel Nunes
Guest Editor

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