Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

被引：310

作者：

Moreira, Francisco ^{[1
,2
]}

Ascoli, Davide ^{[3
]}

Safford, Hugh ^{[4
]}

Adams, Mark A. ^{[5
]}

Moreno, Jose M. ^{[6
]}

Pereira, Jose M. C. ^{[7
]}

Catry, Filipe X. ^{[8
]}

Armesto, Juan ^{[9
]}

Bond, William ^{[10
]}

Gonzalez, Mauro E. ^{[11
]}

Curt, Thomas ^{[12
]}

Koutsias, Nikos ^{[13
]}

McCaw, Lachlan ^{[14
]}

Price, Owen ^{[15
]}

Pausas, Juli G. ^{[16
]}

Rigolot, Eric ^{[17
]}

Stephens, Scott ^{[18
]}

Tavsanoglu, Cagatay ^{[19
]}

Vallejo, V. Ramon ^{[20
,21
]}

Van Wilgen, Brian W. ^{[22
]}

Xanthopoulos, Gavriil ^{[23
]}

Fernandes, Paulo M. ^{[24
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Porto, CIBIO InBIO, Campus Agr Vairao, P-4485601 Vairao, Portugal

[2] Univ Lisbon, CIBIO InBIO, Sch Agr, P-1349017 Lisbon, Portugal

[3] Univ Torino, DISAFA, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, I-10095 Grugliasco, Italy

[4] 2931 Bellows Court, Davis, CA 95618 USA

[5] Swinburne Univ Technol, Fac Sci Engn Technol, Hawthorn, Vic, Australia

[6] Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Environm Sci, Avda Carlos III S-N, E-45071 Toledo, Spain

[7] Univ Lisbon, Sch Agr, Forest Res Ctr, P-1349017 Lisbon, Portugal

[8] Univ Lisbon, Sch Agr, Res Network Biodivers & Evolutionary Biol, Ctr Appl Ecol,CIBIO InBIO, P-1349017 Lisbon, Portugal

[9] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Ecol, Santiago, Chile

[10] Univ Cape Town, Dept Biol Sci, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa

[11] Univ Austral Chile, Fac Ciencias Forestales & Recursos Nat, Inst Conservac Biodiversidad & Terr, CR 2, Valdivia, Chile

[12] IRSTEA, RECOVER, 3275 Route Cezanne,CS4006, F-13182 Aix En Provence, France

[13] Univ Patras, Dept Environm Engn, G Seferi 2, GR-30100 Agrinion, Greece

[14] Dept Biodivers Conservat & Attract, Manjimup, WA 6258, Australia

[15] Univ Wollongong, Ctr Environm Risk Management Bushfire, Wollongong, NSW 2505, Australia

[16] CSIC, CIDE, Ctra CV-315,Km10-7, E-46113 Valencia, Spain

[17] INRA, Ecol Mediterranean Forests, URFM, F-84914 Avignon, France

[18] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[19] Hacettepe Univ, Dept Biol, Div Ecol, TR-06800 Ankara, Turkey

[20] CEAM, C Darwin 14, Paterna 46980, Spain

[21] Univ Barcelona, Dept Evolutionary Biol Ecol & Environm Sci, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

[22] Stellenbosch Univ, Dept Bot & Zool, Ctr Invas Biol, Stellenbosch, South Africa

[23] Hellen Agr Org Demeter, Inst Mediterranean & Forest Ecosyst, POB 14180, Athens 11528, Greece

[24] Univ Tras Os Montes & Alto Douro, CITAB, P-5000801 Vila Real, Portugal

来源：

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 2020年 / 15卷 / 01期

关键词：

wildfires; management policy; Mediterranean-type regions; Australia; Chile; California; South Africa; FIRE MANAGEMENT; BURNED AREA; PORTUGAL;

D O I：

10.1088/1748-9326/ab541e

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of megafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs). Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies in MCRs are destined to fail. Focused on fire suppression, these policies largely ignore ongoing climate warming and landscape-scale buildup of fuels. The result is a 'firefighting trap' that contributes to ongoing fuel accumulation precluding suppression under extreme fire weather, and resulting in more severe and larger fires. We believe that a 'business as usual' approach to wildfire in MCRs will not solve the fire problem, and recommend that policy and expenditures be rebalanced between suppression and mitigation of the negative impacts of fire. This requires a paradigm shift: policy effectiveness should not be primarily measured as a function of area burned (as it usually is), but rather as a function of avoided socio-ecological damage and loss.

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