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Fire management is the set of actions aiming at “taming” vegetation fires to meet land management objectives; it comprises the entire scope of activities from planning to evaluation (Egging and Barney 1979). Fire management is expected to regulate fire activity, that means to regulate the amount of individual fire events and their extent, and, at long term, to govern the fire regime, defined as the cyclical attributes of fire within a given spatiotemporal context (Krebs et al. 2010).
Sustainable fire management is very often known as integrated fire management and can be defined as the achievement of human life and livelihood protection while minimizing environmental harm. Consequently, sustainable fire management seeks to reduce the extent and impacts of undesired fire (wildfire) in the landscape in a manner compatible with the maintenance (or improvement) of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Introduction
Vegetation fires are a primeval element of terrestrial...
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Fernandes, P.M. (2020). Sustainable Fire Management. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_119-1
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