scholarly journals Evaluating spatially-explicit burn probabilities for strategic fire management planning

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Miller ◽  
M.-A. Parisien ◽  
A. A. Ager ◽  
M. A. Finney
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Management Planning

Ignition and fire spread thresholds in gorse (Ulex europaeus)

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. J. Anderson ◽  
Wendy R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Moisture Content ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Spread ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Fuel Layer ◽  
Major Variable

Field experiments were carried out in stands of gorse (Ulex europaeus L.) in New Zealand to determine the conditions under which fires would both ignite and spread. Research and operational experience in shrub fuels suggest that there is a clear difference between conditions that support ignition only (fuel ignites but does not spread beyond a single bush or clump) and conditions that are conducive to fire spread (fuel ignites and develops into a spreading fire). It is important for fire management agencies to be equipped with knowledge of these thresholds, because the different conditions require different levels of preparedness and response. Results indicate that the major variable influencing both fire ignition and fire spread development in gorse is the moisture content of the elevated dead fine fuel layer. Fires were observed to spread successfully in this elevated fuel layer only, independently of the surface fuels and the near-surface fuels. Elevated dead fuels failed to ignite at a moisture content of greater than 36%, and ignition only resulted in a spreading fire at moisture contents below 19%. The results correlate well with field observations and fire practitioners’ experience in these fuels, and provide reliable guidelines for fire management planning.

scholarly journals Utilization of geoinformation tools for the development of forest fire hazard mapping system: example of Pekan fire, Malaysia

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mahmud ◽  
Iwan Setiawan ◽  
Shattri Mansor ◽  
Abdul Shariff ◽  
Biswajeet Pradhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Hazard Mapping ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Mapping System ◽  
Full Complement ◽  
Forest Fire Hazard ◽  
User Friendly

AbstractA study in modeling fire hazard assessment will be essential in establishing an effective forest fire management system especially in controlling and preventing peat fire. In this paper, we have used geographic information system (GIS), in combination with other geoinformation technologies such as remote sensing and computer modeling, for all aspects of wild land fire management. Identifying areas that have a high probability of burning is an important component of fire management planning. The development of spatially explicit GIS models has greatly facilitated this process by allowing managers to map and analyze variables contributing to fire occurrence across large, unique geographic units. Using the model and its associated software engine, the fire hazard map was produced. Extensive avenue programming scripts were written to provide additional capabilities in the development of these interfaces to meet the full complement of operational software considering various users requirements. The system developed not only possesses user friendly step by step operations to deliver the fire vulnerability mapping but also allows authorized users to edit, add or modify parameters whenever necessary. Results from the model can support fire hazard mapping in the forest and enhance alert system function by simulating and visualizing forest fire and helps for contingency planning.

Fire management on private conservation lands: knowledge, perceptions and actions of landholders in eastern Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy G. Halliday ◽  
J. Guy Castley ◽  
James A. Fitzsimons ◽  
Cuong Tran ◽  
Jan Warnken
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Natural Disturbance ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Established Role

Fire is an important natural disturbance process within the Australian landscape, but the complex and hazardous nature of fire creates a conservation management dilemma. For landholders of private conservation lands, management for conservation of biodiversity and risk reduction is complicated. Private conservation landholders in eastern Australia directed far less effort towards fire management than other conservation management actions, despite clearly acknowledging the risk and associated responsibilities of fire management on their lands. Nonetheless, landholders did undertake actions to reduce fuel hazards and prepare for wildfire events on their land. Despite the established role and benefits of fire to many ecosystems in the region, landholder understanding of the ecological role of fire was generally poor. Few landholders were aware of ecologically appropriate fire regimes for the vegetation types on their property, and few undertook fire management actions to achieve ecological outcomes. Site-specific obstacles, lack of fire management knowledge and experience, and legal and containment concerns contributed to the low level of fire management observed. There is a need for property-specific fire management planning across all private conservation lands, to further integrate ecological fire requirements into biodiversity management, and prioritise actions that aim to improve conservation outcomes while safeguarding life and property.

scholarly journals Multiproxy Holocene Fire Records From the Tropical Savannas of Northern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Rehn ◽  
Cassandra Rowe ◽  
Sean Ulm ◽  
Patricia Gadd ◽  
Atun Zawadzki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Fire Intensity ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Indigenous Management ◽  
Northern Cape ◽  
Cape York

Paleoecology has demonstrated potential to inform current and future land management by providing long-term baselines for fire regimes, over thousands of years covering past periods of lower/higher rainfall and temperatures. To extend this potential, more work is required for methodological innovation able to generate nuanced, relevant and clearly interpretable results. This paper presents records from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, as a case study where fire management is an important but socially complex modern management issue, and where palaeofire records are limited. Two new multiproxy palaeofire records are presented from Sanamere Lagoon (8,150–6,600 cal BP) and Big Willum Swamp (3,900 cal BP to present). These records combine existing methods to investigate fire occurrence, vegetation types, and relative fire intensity. Results presented here demonstrate a diversity of fire histories at different sites across Cape York Peninsula, highlighting the need for finer scale palaeofire research. Future fire management planning on Cape York Peninsula must take into account the thousands of years of active Indigenous management and this understanding can be further informed by paleoecological research.

Introducing a framework for good and adaptive governance: An application to fire management planning in Canada’s boreal forest

2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (05) ◽  
pp. 664-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Almstedt ◽  
Maureen G. Reed
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Performance Orientation ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Additional Testing ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Prince Albert National Park ◽  
Parks Canada

Planning for and managing disturbances in protected areas requires governance arrangements that are both adaptive to changing conditions and effective in dealing with multiple challenges. This paper presents a framework composed of principles and criteria of good and adaptive governance that pays attention to inclusiveness, responsibility, fairness, strategic vision, performance orientation, and adaptiveness. The framework was empirically tested on fire management planning in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, involving interactions between Parks Canada and Saskatchewan Environment. Our results suggest that while the principle of performance orientation was upheld, principles such as inclusiveness and adaptiveness were only partially supported. Additional testing beyond fire management planning can help determine the utility of the framework for other environmental management situations.

Spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis of fire management for greenhouse gas abatement

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 724-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
SCOTT HECKBERT ◽  
JEREMY RUSSELL-SMITH ◽  
ANDREW REESON ◽  
JOCELYN DAVIES ◽  
GLENN JAMES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Abatement ◽  
Benefit Cost
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