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| Contemporary trends of fuel accumulation on the landscape caused both by
land abandonment and systematically implemented policies of fire exclusion
are aggravating the fire risk in the Mediterranean Basin. The increase of
this ‘protected’ biomass couples with climate change to favour larger and
more damaging wildfires in Europe. The FIRE PARADOX consortium has the
overall goal of developing the scientific and technical foundation for
proper fire management practices and policies. The deliberate and sound use
of fire in the reduction of hazardous fuels and as fire-fighting tool is
required if mitigation of the social, economical and environmental
devastating consequences of high-severity fire is to be achieved. |
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