Different Strategies for Resilience to Wildfires: The Experience of Collective Land Ownership in Galicia (Northwest Spain)
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Title: | Different Strategies for Resilience to Wildfires: The Experience of Collective Land Ownership in Galicia (Northwest Spain) |
Author: | Marey Pérez, Manuel Francisco Loureiro Veira, Xurxo Corbelle Rico, Eduardo José Fernández Filgueira, Cristina |
Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Enxeñaría Agroforestal Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Produción Vexetal e Proxectos de Enxeñaría |
Subject: | Resilience | Forest fires | Common lands | |
Date of Issue: | 2021 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Citation: | Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 4761; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094761 |
Abstract: | 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 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094761 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26241 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su13094761 |
E-ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Rights: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Atribución 4.0 Internacional |
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