Summary: Integrated Fire Management

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  • 1.1 Diversity fires

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  • What are some of the good things of wildfires for nature?

    Rejuvenates 
    brings light
    Removes fuels
    Lowers the reisk
  • What are the components of framing that are biased?

    Where it burns
    Which fires?
    How it burns
    Impacts
  • What is the wildfire trap?

    The more you fight fire the less efficient it gets

    Why fight something that only gets stronger the more you win?
  • What are the fire triangle for ignitions?

    Fuels
    Oxygen
    Heat
  • What is the fire triangle for Fire behaviour?

    Fuels
    Weather/climate
    Topography
  • Why is the context important for fire management in for instance netherlands? What are examples of these contexts?

    Deurnese peel: tensions agriculture-nature. Buying out farmers. Distrust. 

    Netherlands general: Nitrogen deposition, drought/rewetting, urbangrowth/rural decline, Natura2000
  • What are the four axes of diversity ?

    Cross- geography
    Social diversity
    Cross-risk
    Cross-sector
  • What are some of the societal changes that increase fire risk in future?

    Urban greening (green walls and roofs)
    planting millions of trees
    Major rural changes, depopulation
    Migration from lowNL to sandy higher soild --> flood to fire
  • 1.2 GUIDO

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  • How have LUC affected wildfire risk over the past millenia?

    Strong reduction of natural areas,Large increase intensive agriculture and urban areas.
    --> increased values at risk, reduced safe areas, increased fuel accumulation
  • Globally where is the largest burnt area annually?

    Africa, savannah wildfires
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