Landscape - wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

卷:92

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Moreira, Francisco¹  Viedma, Olga²  Arianoutsou, Margarita³  Curt, Thomas⁴  Koutsias, Nikos⁵  Rigolot, Eric⁶  Barbati, Anna⁷  Corona, Piermaria⁷  Vaz, Pedro¹  Xanthopoulos, Gavriil⁸  Mouillot, Florent⁹  Bilgili, Ertugrul¹⁰ 

[1] Univ Tecn Lisboa, Ctr Ecol Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Inst Agron, P-1349017 Lisbon, Portugal

[2] Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Environm Sci, Toledo 45071, Spain

[3] Univ Athens, Fac Biol, Dept Systemat & Ecol, Athens 15784, Greece

[4] Irstea, UR EMAX Ecosyst Mediterraneens & Risques, F-13182 Aix En Provence, France

[5] Univ Ioannina, Dept Environm & Nat Resources Management, GR-30100 Agrinion, Greece

[6] INRA, Ecol Forets Mediterraneennes UR629, F-84914 Avignon 9, France

[7] Univ Tuscia, Dept Innovat Biol Agrofood & Forest Syst, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy

[8] Natl Agr Res Fdn, Inst Mediterranean Forest Ecosyst & Forest Prod T, Athens 11528, Greece

[9] CEFE CNRS, IRD, F-34293 Montpellier 5, France

[10] Karadeniz Tech Univ, Fac Forestry, TR-61080 Trabzon, Turkey

关键词: Fire hazard;    Landscape changes;    Land use/land cover changes;    Land management;    Mediterranean;    Fire regime;    Climate change;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.06.028

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use changes in the last decades have increased fire risk and danger. In this paper we review the available scientific knowledge on the relationships between landscape and wildfires in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on its application for defining landscape management guidelines and policies that could be adopted in order to promote landscapes with lower fire hazard. The main findings are that (1) socio-economic drivers have favoured land cover changes contributing to increasing fire hazard in the last decades, (2) large wildfires are becoming more frequent, (3) increased fire frequency is promoting homogeneous landscapes covered by fire-prone shrublands; (4) landscape planning to reduce fuel loads may be successful only if fire weather conditions are not extreme. The challenges to address these problems and the policy and landscape management responses that should be adopted are discussed, along with major knowledge gaps. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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