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Many of the technicians who applied the technique of prescribed burning were forest and range managers, but they could also be fire fighters, among many other professions. We will use the term fire professional for all of those trained in fire. In our point of view, agreeing with Kobziar et al. (2009), fire professionals should have not only specif...
Risk analysis for natural hazards is usually carried out separately for the various pertinent hazards in the considered regions or cities, often without attempting to combine these studies into a holistic risk assessment. However, effective decision making requires comprehensive information that includes all relevant hazard types within a region. I...
A conjugação da vontade de dois institutos -Instituto Superior de Agronomia – (ISA) e Instituto de Promoção Ambiental (IPAMB) em realizarem educação ambiental na área agro-florestal e a oportunidade de obter financiamento através do POA (III Quadro Comunitário de Apoio), permitiu a concretização de um projecto denominado "O Mundo Rural e a Conserva...
Extreme heat is associated with an increased mortality and morbidity. National heat plans have been implemented to minimize the effect of extreme heat. The population’s awareness and knowledge of national heat plans and extreme heat is essential to improve the community’s behavior and adaptation. A general population survey was conducted in Lisbon...
Este guia detalha 11 espécies de Acacia presentes em Portugal, oferecendo uma chave dicotómica para identificação rápida e informações sobre a sua distribuição e características. Explora técnicas de controlo, incluindo métodos mecânicos, químicos, biológicos e fogo controlado, com foco na sustentabilidade e no impacto ambiental reduzido. Uma ferram...
Since the 19th century, several Australian Acacia species ('wattles') have been introduced to the Iberian Peninsula as ornamentals, for sand and slope stabilization, for timber, or for other uses. Many species now display invasive behaviour, causing negative impacts and being the focus of management actions. Wattles are most widespread across mainl...
Recent projections suggest that wildfires will occur more often and with higher intensity due to the changing climate. In this context, it is vital to educate the population to be ready and prepared to deal with these events. This book chapter reviews the state of the art of educational materials on wildfires worldwide that are available online. A...
Wildfire risk has been exacerbated across Europe by climate change favoring more damaging and severe wildfire events. This evolving wildfire risk context interacts with a broad landscape of EU policies including those on nature conservation, forestry, bioeconomy or climate and energy, all of which may increase or reduce fire hazard and the level of...
The poster presented at the IUFRO 2024 Congress discusses current trends in the management of Portuguese community forest areas (baldios), highlighting the development of new governance models and the challenges faced in managing these areas. It also emphasizes the importance of creating clusters of baldios and forest certification to improve admin...
The poster presented at the IUFRO 2024 Congress discusses current trends in the management of Portuguese community forest areas (baldios), highlighting the development of new governance models and the challenges faced in managing these areas. It also emphasizes the importance of creating clusters of baldios and forest certification to improve admin...
This report aims to identify pre-fire landscape composition, dynamics and configuration associated with the occurrence of Extreme Wildfire Events (EWE) in Europe in 2000-2022. A set of 137 EWE were compiled into a database, using literature revision and statistical analyses. Corine Land Cover (CLC) data was used to analyze landscape composition, co...
This report examines significant and specific gaps in
long-running disaster impact data sets which skew our
knowledge about global patterns and trends. The report
identifies substantial variability in the same impact
measurements – including the key metric of mortality –
across global databases. Additional gaps include longstanding
disagreements ab...
Fire has been a widely used tool in habitat and landscape management, mainly associated with land use dynamics of deforestation, pasture renewal, hunting and reclaiming new agriculture and rangeland areas. Ancient societies followed norms and rules regarding the used of fire. However, as these societies developed and land ownership changed, the con...
The global rise in issues related to the invasion of alien tree species is becoming increasingly prominent. Genus Acacia is one of the most pervasive invaders among the non-native flora introduced to Portugal over the centuries. This research aimed to pinpoint the key players engaged in its management, their expertise, and the methodologies applied...
Traditional, rural, native, or indigenous fire has coexisted with lightning-caused fire since the origin of Humanity. In Portugal, several uses of fire played an essential role in supporting communities from the settlement of the Portuguese territory within complex agrosilvo-pastoral systems. Previous studies approached traditional fire knowledge f...
Aim: to understand how wildfire risk policies are designed to mitigate the impacts of wildfires. Wildfires are a growing threat in many parts of the world, posing significant risks to human life, and the environment. In recent years, wildfires have increased, driven largely by climate change, human activity, and changes in land-use patterns. Wildfi...
Os terrenos comunitários portugueses - baldios, têm uma história centenária. Desde os seus primórdios, as populações rurais locais usaram estes terrenos para garantir a sua subsistência, o que implicou uma alteração progressiva da paisagem através da utilização de florestas, campos agrícolas, e pastagens. Assim, foram-se desenvolvendo as vertentes...
The reduction of forest biomass decreases wildfire intensity and severity, particularly if applied to a large scale. However, mechanical fuel management treatments are expensive and do not guarantee a financial return to the forest owners.
The project “Added value of forest biomass as a tool in fire risk management - Value2Pre-vent” (PCIF/GVB/0057/...
Fuel management for wildfire risk prevention generally lacks economic sustainability. In marginal areas of southern Europe, this limits fuel treatment programs from reaching the critical mass of required treated area to modify landscape flammability, the fire regime and its impacts.
This study investigates key fuel management initiatives for wildf...
Sumário. Os terrenos comunitários portugueses-baldios, têm uma história centenária. Desde os seus primórdios, as populações rurais locais usaram estes terrenos para garantir a sua subsistência, o que implicou uma alteração progressiva da paisagem através da utilização de florestas, campos agrícolas, e pastagens. Assim, foram-se desenvolvendo as ver...
Pyrosilviculture and understory fuel management to reduce forest stand and landscape flammability represent loss-making interventions from an economic point of view. Consequently, prevention is carried out above all on public property and with public funds (e.g. Rural Development Programs), while the interest of the private individual for preventio...
Wildfire risk prevention through fuel management generally lack of economic sustainability. In marginal areas of southern Europe, this limits fire prevention programs to reach the critical mass of interventions required to modify landscape flammability, the fire regime and its impacts.This study investigates key fuel management initiatives for wild...
O período entre 2018 e 2022 mostrou-nos que o problema dos incêndios à escala global não está a diminuir, antes pelo contrário. Parece que as consequências das alterações climáticas já estão a afectar a ocorrência de incêndios florestais em várias partes do Mundo, de uma forma que só esperaríamos que acontecesse vários anos mais tarde. Em muitos pa...
Forests are increasingly susceptible to wildfires due to land abandonment, fragmentation, lack of forest management, and agricultural burns. The impacts of climate change, with longer heat waves and the extension of the summer season, creates the conditions for catastrophic wildfire seasons in many countries. The drivers that increase wildfire risk...
Enquanto contributo para a arte paisagista na cidade de Lisboa, este livro centra a abordagem nos espaços públicos, na sua génese e distribuição espacial, no cruzamento de influências culturais de origens geográficas diversas e no desenho e na composição arbórea dos jardins e parques históricos da cidade. A criação destes espaços verdes urbanos ond...
This paper presents the concept of communities of innovation for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The paper discusses the added value of these types of communities to help address uncertain futures from the impact of climate change, which are highly context dependent. The paper frames these communities of innovation as part of...
This publication is the final report summarizing main results of RECIPE (Reinforcing Civil Protection capabilities into multi-hazard risk management) project, co-funded by European Union Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (UCPM-2019-PP-AG).
La prevención de incendios forestales tiene como ejes principales reducir tanto el riesgo de ignición como la capacidad de propagación de los incendios. En ambos objetivos, la gestión del combustible forestal es fundamental. Tradicionalmente, las actividades agropecuarias y forestales han contribuido de forma indirecta a esa gestión a escala de pai...
Wildfire prevention through risk management having in consideration social vulnerability and gender issues.
Prevención dos lumes desde a valoración e a xestión do risco
como elemento fundamental á hora de reaccionar fronte a unha ameaza, e
facelo ademais analizando a vulnerabilidade dos distintos colectivos, nomeadamente,
das mulleres.
In the last five decades, Community-Based Forestry (CBF) has become a subject of special attention. It is assumed that the transfer of rights to local communities will improve forest management. In Portugal more than 13% of the forest area belongs to local communities (termed baldios). Following FAO tools, assessments of Forest Tenure and CBF were...
Plurifor: a transnational management of forest fire Fires are a major hazard observed in the forests in southwestern Europe. In 2017, approximately 540,630 hectares of forest were burned in Portugal, 178,234 ha in Spain and 26,378 in France. Furthermore, forest fire occurrence and severity tend to increase with climate change and human activities....
Os técnicos florestais são um dos principais intervenientes no território rural. Os incêndios são a maior ameaça aos espaços florestais portugueses e são maioritariamente um problema social. Com o objetivo de perceber se as competências fornecidas nos diversos cursos universitários da área florestal respondem às diversas solicitações laborais deste...
Assessment of Portuguese community forest areas with VGGT and CBF systems.
Este documento apresenta os resultados da implementação das "Orientações Voluntárias sobre Governança Responsável da Posse" (VGGT) em terrenos comunitários de Portugal, destacando práticas de boa governança e gestão responsável da posse florestal. O estudo avalia a política, legislação, instituições e administração no contexto português, identifica...
This study, conducted by CEABN/ISA in collaboration with FAO, evaluated the governance of community forest areas in mainland Portugal, using the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) as a reference. The results highlight a well-developed legislative framework but underline the need to increase awareness of the rights a...
Em 2012 foram adotadas pelo Comité de Segurança Alimentar da Organização das Nações Unidas as Orientações sobre a Governança Responsável da Posse de Terras, Pescas e Florestas (também referidas como VGGT). As orientações de VGGT fornecem princípios e boas práticas às quais os governos se podem basear: no desenvolvimento de leis; na gestão da terra...
Este documento apresenta os resultados de uma avaliação da gestão comunitária de áreas florestais (GCAF) em terrenos baldios em Portugal, realizada ao longo de 40 anos. A análise abrange quatro modalidades de gestão, com foco nos benefícios ambientais, sociais e económicos associados à gestão comunitária. Além disso, o estudo compara a eficácia das...
This thesis addresses the role of environmental education on wildfire risk reduction, focusing on two main intervenient on the rural world: Forest technicians and the rural population.
A first step was to assess what was done in Portugal regarding environmental education for forest and education for risk reduction. Next, the risk perception and the...
The chapter presents typologies of peri-urban areas of Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) regarding social and economic dimensions. These typologies are the outcome of a trans-disciplinary research developed by the project PERI-URBAN involving different Portuguese universities, crossing academic fields and integrating the knowledge of stakeholders from...
Policy brief from the European Project ENHANCE - partnership for risk reduction
Este estudo teve como ponto de partida a seguinte questão: “As peças dos noticiários televisivos portugueses sobre a temática dos incêndios florestais correspondem a uma informação educativa ao nível dos seus impactos ambientais?”. Algumas conclusões preliminares apontam para a não existência de uma informação educativa porque “os noticiários telev...
Climate change scenarios foresee that temperatures will increase and that droughts will also increase in intensity and duration with likely consequences on wildfire hazard. The EU project DROUGHT R&SPI related burned areas in Portugal with accumulated anomalies in precipitation (SPI, a Standardized Precipitation Index). On the other hand, the EU pr...
This paper aims to discuss the specificities of the role of services in the
economic structuring and in the social liveliness and attractiveness of
periurban areas. Drawing upon on the result of an empirical work developed
in 5 different parishes of Lisbon Metropolitan area, which represent
five categories of periurban spaces previously identified,...
Peri-urban areas are diverse and complex landscapes. It is this complexity that is being recognized as the ground for the capacity to provide answers to the emerging global challenges, such as climate change, food security and the well-being of an increasingly urban population. Peri-urban areas have been rather neglected in regional and urban plann...
Wildfires are natural hazards that have both biological components (vegetation as fuel) and meteorological components (air temperature and humidity, wind). It can be defined as “any unplanned and uncontrolled vegetation fire which, regardless of the ignition source, may require suppression response or other actions according to agency policy.”Keywo...
A educação ambiental visa criar cidadãos conscientes, conhecedores, críticos e interventivos na área ambiental. Para tal, utiliza estratégias de comunicação e educação para aumentar a literacia científica e ambiental, através da implementação de formas eficazes para uma transferência e partilha do conhecimento ambiental e científico. A relação com...
The goal of the conference is REGULATING THE FIRE PROBLEM BY THE WISE USE OF FIRE.
This conference is targeted (but not limited) to European and national policy makers and representatives of agencies and organizations for forest and land management and fire protection.
Towards Integrated Wildland Fire Management - Outcomes of the European Projects...
In order to minimize the damages associated to wildfire is crucial to have, primarily, a good prevention. When this fails, a fast and accurate detection should help an efficient first-attack followed, if everything fails, by a strong fire-fighting. This paper present the first results of a European, Morocco and Tunes inquiry regarding fire detectio...
Resumo Este artigo foca um programa continuado de educação ambiental ligado a temas agro-florestais que decorre desde 1996 no meio de Lisboa no Instituto Superior de Agronomia. A Tapada da Ajuda, antigo espaço de casa e lazer da família real portuguesa, pertence ao Instituto Superior de Agronomia, sendo uma antiga quinta onde existem espaços agríco...
O projecto que se apresenta foi realizado com turmas do 6º ano do 2º ciclo do ensino básico num total de 150 alunos, em que se pretendeu através de experiências práticas, dar a conhecer a influência dos factores abióticos (meteorologia e solo) e bióticos (desenvolvimento das plantas e sua sobrevivência), num problema ambiental que é a desertificaçã...
Prevenção de Incêndios Florestais: Um estudo sobre a formação dos técnicos florestais.
M.ª Conceição Colaço(1,2), Francisco Castro Rego(1), Pablo Meira(2)
1. Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Baeta Neves – ISA, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 361 6080, e-mail: ccolaco@isa.utl.pt, 2. Facultade de Ciencias da Educación, Universidad...
Portugal has a problem with forest wildfires. Through out the years, the number of fires and area burned has increased. Forest engineers are one of the professional groups most involved in the prevention of wildfires, not only in the field of preventive silviculture but also in the area of rural extension. Some of the objectives of this work are to...
A Ciência Florestal nunca desenvolveu doutrina para o restauro e condução silvícola de
galerias florestais ribeirinhas. É por isso pertinente a investigação e experimentação que levem à
conceptualização de metodologias para a recuperação destas formações. Neste contexto, foram
realizados três ensaios de instalação de espécies lenhosas ribeirinhas e...
Presentation of the environmental education program devoted to the oak montados from Portugal.
