Academic Journal

Different Strategies for Resilience to Wildfires: The Experience of Collective Land Ownership in Galicia (Northwest Spain)

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Different Strategies for Resilience to Wildfires: The Experience of Collective Land Ownership in Galicia (Northwest Spain)
المؤلفون: Manuel Marey-Perez, Xurxo Loureiro, Eduardo José Corbelle-Rico, Cristina Fernández-Filgueira
المصدر: Sustainability; Volume 13; Issue 9; Pages: 4761
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: resilience, forest fires, common lands
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Resilience is not a particularly novel concept, but it has recently become frequently used as a measurement indicator of adaptation capacity under different approaches depending on the field of study. Ideally, for example, forest ecosystems would be resilient to wildfires, one of the most serious types of perturbation they are subjected to. In areas such as the northwest of Spain, a region with one of the most severe records of wildfire occurrence in western Europe, resilience indicators should be related with changes in land planning aimed to minimize the effects of forest fires. This article aimed to analyze the fire resilience strategies of a selected group of forest communities in northwest Spain. More specifically, the perceived risk of wildfires was compared with the actual record of fire events in these communities and the presence or absence of adaptive changes in management practices to reduce risk and improve recovery capacity. A mixed quantitative–qualitative approach was used to gather information about good practices, innovative solutions, and major obstacles for forest fire resilience in Galician common lands. The results suggest that while there is no single form of successful management, a key characteristic of resilient communities is the integration of fire as a management tool.
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وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: Hazards and Sustainability; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13094761
DOI: 10.3390/su13094761
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094761
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.474D2A47
قاعدة البيانات: BASE