Fire-smart solutions for sustainable wildfire risk prevention: Bottom-up initiatives meet top-down policies under EU green deal

作者：Davide Ascoli, Eduard Plana, Silvio Daniele Oggioni, Antonio Tomao, Mario Colonico, Piermaria Corona, Francesco Giannino, Mauro Moreno, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Konstantinos Kaoukis, Miltiadis Athanasiou, Conceição Colaço, Francisco Rego, Ana Catarina Sequeira, Vanda Acácio, Marta Serra, Anna Barbati · 发表于：International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103715 · 被引用次数：80 · 研究领域：Fire effects on ecosystems、Flood Risk Assessment and Management、Landslides and related hazards

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 wildfire risk prevention in southern EU countries. We compared local approaches through a bottom-up selection of 38 initiatives, which we analyzed systematically through a set of fire-smart criteria: sustainability, cost-benefit ratio, synergies and inter-sectoral cooperation, integration between strategic prevention planning and multiple land governance goals (e.g., rural development, biodiversity conservation, energy supply), innovation and knowledge transfer, and adaptive management. We summarized lessons learned from the most innovative initiatives, by identifying solutions and functional approaches for building sustainable fuel management at the landscape scale, under fire-smart management principles. These make synergistic use of private, public and European resources to activate value chains that valorize the products, by-products and services generated by fuel management activities and their positive externalities on ecosystem services. The multiple mechanisms include fire-marketing, Payment for Ecosystem Services schemes, specific taxes, or environmental compensatory measures. These mechanisms catalyze the interest of multiple st...