Integrated Vulnerability of Forest Systems to Wildfire: Implications on Forest Management Tools. VIS4FIRE Project
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 19647
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest fires; integrated fire management
Interests: fire vulnerability; fire management; fire prevention; fire behavior; fire risk and danger assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
Wildfires are major threats in many forested areas with important socioeconomic and environmental implications. Climatic change predictions, forest management and land use changes (global change) will exacerbate the problem, generating additional threats and challenges in civil protection protocols and forest management.
The VIS4FIRE project is based on the concept of vulnerability of forest systems to fire and its implications for management strategies oriented to integrate wildfire management practices. Therefore, the main aim of VIS4FIRE is the characterization and analysis of the main components of vulnerability of forest systems to wildfire as the basis of an efficient normalized system. The evaluation of integral vulnerability to wildfires in order to carry out a more efficient integrated forest management protection of forests and landscapes is in the frame of sustainable forest management and adaptive silviculture. Consequently, to achieve this goal, we will develop methodologies, tools and technologies, applicable before, during and after the fire, through the following main topics:
- Prediction of forest fuel characteristics as a key vulnerability factor to wildfire;
- Determining the effects of fuel treatments (including prescribed fires) on vulnerability components;
- Assessing the influence of fire severity and fire recurrence on forest systems’ resilience and vulnerability;
- Improving wildfire behaviour predictions to reduce vulnerability in forest stands;
- Econometric analysis of vulnerability: production and suppression capacity, decision support under uncertain environments and fire management;
- Evaluation of post-fire restoration treatments’ efficacy and their influence on burned area vulnerability;
- Approach to integral vulnerability analysis of forest areas including the development of new indices and tools based on modelling, remote sensing and computation of large and big data.
We invite additional authors to contribute with scientific and technological knowledge related to these topics
Dr. Javier Madrigal
Dr. Juan Ramón Molina Martínez
Dr. Eva Marino
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Keywords
- decision support systems
- econometrics
- fire impacts
- fire resilience
- fire risk
- fire vulnerability indices
- flammability
- forest fuels modelling
- forest fire behaviour
- remote sensing
- resilience
- post-fire restoration
- software
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