Innovative technologies and socio-ecological-economic solutions for fire resilient territories in Europe (FIRE-RES)

Description:

Extreme Wildfire Events (EWE) are becoming a major environmental, economic and social threat across the world. As the limits of fire suppression-centered strategies become evident, practitioners, researchers and policymakers increasingly recognise the need to develop novel approaches that shift emphasis to the root causes and impacts of Extreme Wildfire Events, moving towards preventive landscape and community management for greater resilience.

The FIRE-RES project aims at accelerating pan-European adaptation to these extreme wildfire events supporting the transition to more resilient landscapes and communities in Europe.

FIRE-RES develops 34 innovation actions that integrate fire managment measures for prevention and preparedness, detection, restoration and adaptation. 

The project is built around the concept of Integrated Fire Management. It is a planning and operational approach that includes social, economic, cultural and ecological dimensions. Its objective is to minimize the damage caused by wildfires and maximise its benefits.

To move towards an Integrated Fire Management approach, FIRE-RES adopts 4 main pillars:

• extreme wildfires’ behaviour and drivers;
• emergency management
• landscape and economy
• governance, society, communication and risk awareness

Project information

Lead

Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (Spain)

Partners

Spanish State Agency for scientific research and technological development (Spain)

Airbus

National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection - ANEPC (Portugal)

Catalan Fire and Rescue Services associated to the Government of Catalonia (Spain)

National Scientific Research laboratories for the Environment  - CNRS (France)

Chilean research institute (Chile)

Italian National Research Council - CNR (Italy)

Chilean Timber Corporation (Chile)

National Forest Corporation (Chile)

National School of Firefighters (Portugal)

Euromontana (France)

European Forest Institute (Finland)

Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (Spain)

ForestWISE (Portugal)

Government of Canary Islands, Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against climate change and territorial planning (Spain)

Cartogtaphic and geologic Institute of Catalonia (Spain)

European Institute of Cultivated Forest - IEFC (France)

Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering , technology and Science (Portugal)

National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment - INRAE (France)

Mitiga solutions (UK)

National Observatory of Athens - NOA (Greece)

Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research - NIBIO (Norway)

Balcans and Caucaso TransEuroepan Observatory -  OBC (Italy)

FORESTAS (Italy)

School of Agriculture University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Spire Global (UK)

Tecnosylva (Spain)

International Emergency Management Society (Belgium)

University of Padova (Italy)

University of Forestry (Bulgaria)

University of the Aegean (Greece)

Technical reseach Centre of Finland (Finland)

Wageningen University (The Netherlands)

Regional Ministry of the Rural Environment of the Xunta de Galicia (Spain)

Spanish National Research Council (Spain)