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
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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.
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Globally where is the largest burnt area annually?
Africa, savannah wildfires
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