Tag: forest fires
Land-use change and large wildfires
The effects of climate change on wildfires are widely studied around the world. However, another key process contributing to changing fire regimes...
The role of fire in the conservation of Black Pine habitat
The endemic Mediterranean black pine forests (Pinus nigra Arn.) are a priority habitat for conservation in the European Union. Black pine forests...
Seminar on the management and prevention of forest fires
The Montclima project is developing a transnational strategic framework for prevention and management of natural hazards in mountainous areas of the SUDOE...
Wildfire resilience with a flavour of economics
A recipe in the making
When at home in your kitchen you meticulously follow the steps of a...
Aleppo pine regeneration after fire
The paper accurately measured seed rain intensity and duration in relation with stand characteristics at many places. For the seeds, the dissemination...
Preparing for forest-related disasters and extreme events
2021 marks the 16th anniversary of Gudrun, a powerful storm that passed over northern Europe causing severe wind damage, power outages, and...
Europe’s nature under threat after a 2019 with highest forest fire...
The European Commission has recently published the 20th edition of its Annual Report on Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and...
Examining the economic drivers of wildfire: where there’s smoke, there’s finance
"The world is ablaze. Or so it seems, and the scenario is repeating itself every year now," says Dr. François-Nicolas Robinne, of...
“Extreme wildfires are not new, even if they appear to be”
Fire has been for centuries a modeler of Mediterranean landscapes in southern Europe. Climate change as well as current trends in land...
Bioeconomy as a long-term model for fighting forest fires
Hundreds of firefighters were fighting forest fires last year in southern Catalonia, Spain, as temperatures rose to 40 degrees Celsius and above...
