By Francisco Moreira, Margarita Arianoutsou, Piermaria Corona, Jorge De las Heras
In spite of the entire efforts made in hearth prevention and suppression, each year approximately forty five 000 woodland fires take place in Europe, burning ca. 1/2 million hectares of forests and different rural lands. The administration of those burned forests has been given less recognition than fireplace prevention or fireplace suppression concerns, however the post-fire administration of burned parts increases robust issues (economic and social affects, soil erosion and water caliber, biodiversity loss, wooded area restoration). even supposing there are a couple of courses which deal with post-fire administration, the focal point of those has been both on common methods to recovery or particular themes akin to combating post-fire soil erosion. This e-book is set the post-fire administration of fire-prone wooded area forms in southern Europe. It offers the 1st accomplished assessment of the subject, starting from stand-level to landscape-level administration, and from emergency activities to long term recovery approaches.
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G. g. g. smoke and air pollution). , fodder production). In the next section we present an overview of the impacts that forest fires can have on goods and services that were identified to be affected in previous studies. Timber The value of standing timber is one of the main categories when estimating the impacts provoked by wildfires (González-Cabán 1998). For example, Abt et al. (2008) reported that in the case of four studied wildfires timber losses were around 20% of all costs and losses. However, the magnitude of timber losses can differ significantly from case to case (JRC 2009).
The average fire size showed a dissimilar spatial trend in relation to the number of fires and burned area, with Greece showing the highest values for nearly all the years, with particular incidence in 2007 (Fig. 5). For all the other countries, the average fire size decreased continuously since the 1980s, with annual oscillations more evident in Spain in 1994, in Portugal in 2003 and in Italy in 2007. 3 Overall Trends by Province (NUTS3) The overall trend in the number of fires is very irregular depending on the province, although general patterns can be observed by country (Fig.
The majority of the provinces of Italy and Greece showed no trend. For the period 2000–2008, the majority of provinces in all the countries show a decreasing trend, with a few exceptions in France and Italy; • The average number of fires has substantially increased in Portugal and Spain in both the “fire season” (June to October) and the rest of the year, while for the other countries the trend is more constant; • In the period 2000–2006, fires burned mainly areas of forest and shrublands. The main CORINE land cover categories affected were “Transitional woodlandscrub” (23% of the total burned areas, “Coniferous forest” (15%), followed by “Broad-leaved forest”, “Mixed forest”, “Natural grassland”, “Moors and heathland” and “Sclerophyllous vegetation” (ca.