Conferences
6 July 2021, Online
Sustainability Webinar | Post Wildfire Management: Erosion and Land Degradation Control, Soil Restoration, and Vegetation Cover Recovery
The increased frequency, magnitude, and extent of wildfires, over the past few decades, have become a major societal and environmental concern across the world. These concerns are further aggravated by the likely future climate conditions, increasingly propitious to wildfire ignition and spread where wildfires burn at high severity, and where erosion, runoff, and sedimentation may be triggered by high intensity post-fire rain events.
Therefore, post-fire treatments to limit the potential for soil erosion are increasingly important given that the extensive area burned in recent decades is predicted to increase while human values at risk grow, and vegetation management becomes more challenging in the face of climate change.
The present webinar of Sustainability intends to outline different approaches regarding post-wildfire management, showing the different perspectives and challenges we face in the 21st century. As this is a crucial issue for sustainable development, strongly threatened by global changes, and since the production of literature today is fast and dispersed by countless thesis, books, and articles, a webinar with some key-speakers from different parts of the world will allow to discuss the most recent results obtained from research in different regions around the globe.
The following experts will present and talk:
- Prof. Dr. António Vieira, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Geografia, Campus de Azurém, Universidade do Minho, Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal
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Prof. Dr. Paulo Pereira, Environmental Management Centre, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Dr. Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
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Prof. Dr. Xavier Úbeda, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
When? 6 July 2021 at 3:00 pm CEST | 9:00am EDT | 9:00pm CST Asia
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