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FIRESMART Project Presentation |
Summary of the first reporting period
FIRESMART deals with forest fire prevention. We want to highlight and disseminate base knowledge and best practices.
If you are a forest stakeholder, you can share your successful forest fire prevention practices through the FIRESMART community. If you are interested, you are welcome to join and share your experience with all the linked community.
Fire incidence in southern European forests is expected to worsen as a result of climate change; furthermore, fire prevention methods, priorities, practices and legal frames vary considerably across Europe. Hence the need to reinforce fire prevention as one of the main corner stones of fire fighting. However, the baseline knowledge concerning forest fire preventive practices is atomized and not universally accessible to the wide stakeholder community, not even along the silvicultural chain.
The EU Support Action FIRESMART strives to:
- identify obstacles that hinder the effectiveness of forest fire preventive measures, and
- derive recommendations to integrate prevention practices in regular forest management plans.
FIRESMART has global and local interests on forest fire prevention practices.
Worldwide fire prevention practices have been sought, examined and catalogued in the FIRESMART Documental Data Base with more than 1000 entries. You can find some highlighted fire prevention practices, which are the result of our analysis.
Forest fire prevention experiences in eight related topics are sought:
- Agroforestry and grazing as preventive fire measures
- Awareness rising and training for fire prevention
- Fire causes and fire risk
- Fire prevention in the wildland urban interface
- Institutional aspects in support of forest fire prevention
- Legislative aspects
- Preventive silviculture
- Socioeconomic aspects of forest fire prevention
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