Global warming and forest fires in Canada

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Stocks
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Warming Trend ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
The Future ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
The Impact

The looming possibility of global warming raises legitimate concerns for the future of the forest resource in Canada. While evidence of a global warming trend is not conclusive at this time, governments would be wise to anticipate, and begin planning for, such an eventuality. The forest fire business is likely to be affected both early and dramatically by any trend toward warmer and drier conditions in Canada, and fire managers should be aware that the future will likely require new and innovative thinking in forest fire management. This paper summarizes research activities currently underway to assess the impact of global warming on forest fires, and speculates on future fire management problems and strategies.

scholarly journals La gestione degli incendi boschivi in Canton Ticino: tentativo di una sintesi storica | Forest fire management in Canton Ticino: attempting a historical overview

2004 ◽  
Vol 155 (7) ◽  
pp. 263-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Conedera ◽  
Gabriele Corti ◽  
Paolo Piccini ◽  
Daniele Ryser ◽  
Francesco Guerini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Southern Alps ◽  
Fire Fighting ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Structural Measures ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legislative Measures

The Southern Alps, in particular the Canton Ticino, is the region of Switzerland that is most affected by the phenomenon of forest fires. Therefore, the cantonal authorities are continually confronted with problems of prevention, fire fighting and mitigation of the effects of forest fires. In this article forest fire management in Canton Ticino is analyzed in historical terms, verifying in particular the impact of the methods used and the improvement of technology addressing the frequency of events and the extent of burned surfaces. In this way it has been possible to show how a few structural measures (better organization of fire fighting crews and equipment, introduction of aerial fire fighting techniques, electrification followed by construction of shelters along railway lines, etc.) have rather reduced the extent of burned surfaces, while legislative measures such as restrictions of open fires help to reduce the number of forest fires.

scholarly journals Identifying Forest Fire Driving Factors and Related Impacts in China Using Random Forest Algorithm

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Wenyuan Ma ◽  
Zhongke Feng ◽  
Zhuxin Cheng ◽  
Shilin Chen ◽  
Fengge Wang
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Socioeconomic Variables ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Geographical Regions

Reasonable forest fire management measures can effectively reduce the losses caused by forest fires and forest fire driving factors and their impacts are important aspects that should be considered in forest fire management. We used the random forest model and MODIS Global Fire Atlas dataset (2010~2016) to analyse the impacts of climate, topographic, vegetation and socioeconomic variables on forest fire occurrence in six geographical regions in China. The results show clear regional differences in the forest fire driving factors and their impacts in China. Climate variables are the forest fire driving factors in all regions of China, vegetation variable is the forest fire driving factor in all other regions except the Northwest region and topographic variables and socioeconomic variables are only the driving factors of forest fires in a few regions (Northwest and Southwest regions). The model predictive capability is good: the AUC values are between 0.830 and 0.975, and the prediction accuracy is between 70.0% and 91.4%. High fire hazard areas are concentrated in the Northeast region, Southwest region and East China region. This research will aid in providing a national-scale understanding of forest fire driving factors and fire hazard distribution in China and help policymakers to design fire management strategies to reduce potential fire hazards.

scholarly journals Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Models in Forest Fire Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roya Abedi
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Network Access ◽  
Forest Road ◽  
Forest Fire Management

Abstract The study on effective factors of forest fire prevention policy is helpful to reduce forest fire impacts on extensive environmental damage in the long-term period. In other words, forest fire management is the result of a complex interaction among criteria. The present study aims to create a scientific analysis of the most effective criteria based on TOPSIS and SAW methods in the Arasbaran forest. The five top optimal criteria selection by TOPSIS method introduced that “association and cooperation between the executive and responsible institutions” have the first rank (CCi+=0.85), “Lack of deterrence law in dealing with forest fire offenders in human–caused forest fires” has the second rank (CCi+= 0.84) and followed by “Lack of up-to-date scientific information on susceptible areas in the region”, “Increasing the cooperation of NGOs and increase public trust”; and “Lack of forest road network access to ignite regions” (CCi+= 0.789; 0.787; 0.77, respectively). The five top optimal criteria resulting from the SAW method showed that “Local people participations” provide the highest score (FS=0.39) and followed by “association and cooperation between the executive and responsible institutions (FS=0.39), “Increasing the cooperation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and increase public trust” (FS=0.36), “Raising awareness of the position of natural resources among local peoples and attracting their cooperation” (FS=0.35) and “Optimal Use past experiences” (FS=0.34). It is suggested that evaluating the ecological and environmental factors affecting the forest fire occurrence and extension could become a set of complement factors to setting management criteria for demonstrating the best management strategies.

scholarly journals Understanding Forest Fire Management in Indonesia from a Global Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indra Agus Riyanto ◽  
Ahmad Cahyadi ◽  
Faricha Kurniadhini ◽  
Hafidz Bachtiar ◽  
Dwiki Apriyana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Fire Disaster ◽  
Forest Fire Disaster

Forest fires are one of the global issues that attract worldwide attention. Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, and Indonesia are among the countries with the largest forest cover and long records of massive forest fires. Forest fire management is, therefore, critical to decreasing the severity level of these fires. Current conditions indicate that, compared with the four other countries, Indonesia has significantly reduced forest fires within the past five years. Consequently, adopting a global perspective to study the characteristics of forest fire disaster management has become necessary. For each management parameter, this research employed a literature review and descriptive analysis. The results showed that Indonesia had an advantage in the field of legal regulation. Indonesia tends to change its regulations within a short span of time, resulting in the number of forest fire incidents decreasing significantly compared with Russia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. However, the country still has several weaknesses, namely in emergency responses, forest fire monitoring technology, and inter-institutional integration in forest fire disaster management.

Simulation analysis of the impact of ignitions, rekindles, and false alarms on forest fire suppression

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abílio P. Pacheco ◽  
João Claro ◽  
Tiago Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Fire Season ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
The Impact

Rekindles and false alarms are phenomena that have a significant presence in the Portuguese forest fire management system and an important impact on suppression resources in particular and fire management resources in general. In this paper, we propose a discrete-event simulation model of a forest fire suppression system designed to analyze the joint impact of ignitions, rekindles, and false alarms on the performance of the system. The model is applied to a case study of the district of Porto, Portugal, for the critical period of the forest fire season, between July and September 2010. We study the behavior of the system’s point of collapse, comparing the real base scenario with a benchmark scenario built with reference values for rekindles and false alarms, and also as a function of the number of fire incidents, considering historical variations. The results of the analysis are useful for operational decision-making and provide relevant information on the trade-off between prevention and suppression efforts.

scholarly journals PENGENDALIAN KEBAKARAN HUTAN DI KPH MADIUN PERUM PERHUTANI UNIT II JAWA TIMUR Forest Fire Management in KPH Madiun Perum Perhutani Unit II East Java

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Bambang Hero Saharjo ◽  
Elga Tiara Putra
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Local People ◽  
Trigger Factors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Fire Monitoring ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
In Fire

Forest fires bring substantial losses in many aspects, especially for forest resources. Therefore, forest fire management should take into account at each of Indonesian forest area. KPH Madiun has suffered from a large forest fire in the recent 5 years, thus research to analyze the trigger factors and an effort to manage forest fire should be gone. This research used data triangular methods for data collecting and qualitative description analyse to analyze the data. Results of this research clearly shows that forest fire in KPH Madiun was mainly came from local people activities such as, burning the forest to clear the land (43%) and due to social conflict (15%). The forest fire prepetion emphasized on social approach in community based forest management (CBFM) by planting medicinal plant and establishing the forest Danger Index (FDI) board. The local people participated in fire extinction (49%), while the other not participate yet. There was no fire truck and fire monitoring tower found in the study area. Finding and arresting the suspect behind forest fire is the most difficult thing to do in post-fire management.Key words: forest fire, local people, fire management

scholarly journals Static Risk Mapping of Forest Fires in the Case of the Province of Chefchaouen (Morocco)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Malak Alasli
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Vegetation Structure ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Hazard Maps ◽  
Probability Map ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Static Risk

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Forest fire is responsible for a lot of problems as it destroys the landscape. Such spaces are valuable and take very long to recover. Hence, the risk of forest fire consists primarily of both the risk of an outbreak and of propagation which depend, in addition to the weather, to a number of environmental factors including: the type of vegetation (structure and composition), its state of desiccation as well as the slope and exposure to prevailing winds. Therefore, the goal is to develop static hazard maps of a 100&amp;thinsp;m resolution related to the province of Chefchaouen where the focus is on three maps; Surface threatened; Annual pressure of fire; Probability map. The production of these maps is based on various data including statistics on the fire, meteorological references, and flammability. In addition, several data were generated, namely, wind direction, wind speed, humidity, the slope in percent, aspect, etc. The production of these maps will make it possible to orient and optimize the means of investment, in particular with regard to infrastructures, equipment and forest fire management operations.</p>

scholarly journals PEMETAAN DAERAH RAWAN KEBAKARAN HUTAN DAN LAHAN DI KABUPATEN ROKAN HILIR

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ikhwan
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Soil Productivity ◽  
Fire Control ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High

Forest fire is one form of the disorder occur more frequently. The negative impact caused by forest fires large enough cover ecological damage, declining biodiversity, the decline in the economic value of forest and soil productivity, chan ges in micro and global climate and the smoke damage the health of people and disrupting transport by land, river, lake, sea and air. Given the impact of the forest fires, the efforts to protect the forest areas is very important. In an effort to control forest fires it is essential to map vulnerability to wildfires prepared to know which areas have the potential for fires. The purpose of this study was to map the vulnerability of land and forest fires in an effort to support the establishment of forest fire management strategy. Through a vulnerability map wildfires can provide vulnerability information to policy-making forest fire prevention / fire control and is expected to be the basis in prevention efforts as early as possible. The study was conducted from June until July 2014 and the case study research in Rokan Hilir Regency. Results of mapping the vulnerability of land and forest fires shows that most areas of Rokan Hilir Regency has a severe impact and the level of vulnerability is very high. Low-prone areas have extensive 9152.55 hectares (1.01%), the rate of moderate-prone area of 158,943.95 hectares (17.49%), high-level-prone area of 382,448.62 hectares (42.08%) and very high levels of vulnerability with an area of 358,374.00 hectares (39.43%).

scholarly journals The impact of fire on timber supply in Ontario

1994 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Martell
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Timber Harvest ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Harvest Scheduling ◽  
Administrative District ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Northwestern Region ◽  
The Impact

Results are presented for an assessment of the impact of fire on timber supply in the province of Ontario. Historical fire report data are used to develop statistical summaries of fire regimes in terms of annual fire occurrence and area burned by administrative district and region. A simple hypothetical jack pine forest is used to illustrate how forest level timber harvest scheduling models can be employed to assess the timber supply implications of fire management regimes. Although fire may have had a significant detrimental impact on timber supply in some parts of the Northwestern region during the 1976-88 period, the effectiveness of Ontario's forest fire management system is such that timber supply in most districts has not been significantly diminished by fire. The results of our timber supply analysis, and the fact that fire management also benefits public safety and reduces property loss, suggest forest fire management is profitable in Ontario. Key words: forest fire impact, timber supply, mathematical programming, Ontario

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