Work

Optimizing landscape configuration and fire management policies to minimize expected losses from EWE

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Prioritizing investments in forest and fuel management projects and measuring outcomes is a significant challenge. As a result, the need to prioritize and strategically place fuel treatments requires a methodological approach that accounts for the implementation costs and prioritization based on different management objectives for different landscapes. For that purpose, the ForSys spatial planning system was used to modernize tools to prioritize forest and fuel management investments and understand trade-offs among alternative scenarios. In addition, a proposed methodological framework has been applied on a forest matrix scenario that reflects alternative spatial distributions of forest biophysical attributes, to obtain an optimized spatial landscape configuration to increase resilience and address concerns with EWE and, to minimize potential losses caused by EWE by the optimal allocation of management options over the landscape.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15259801

Authors: Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, University of the Aegean, University of Lisbon, National Observatory of Athens

Language: English

Topic: Fire effects on ecosystems

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: Innovative technologies and socio-ecological-economic solutions for fire resilient territories in Europe.