Fireadapt

Project

FIRE-ADAPT is a project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges 2021 scheme within the Horizon Europe funding programme from the European Union (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE).

Duration

1 January 2023 to 31 December 2026

Project coordinator

Núria Prat, Pau Costa Foundation, Spain

Scientific coordinator

Imma Oliveras, botAnique et Modélisation de l’Architecture des Plantes et des végétations, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Overall objective

Quantify, monitor and evaluate the impact of Integrated Fire Management (IFM) on carbon dynamics, biodiversity and cultural ecosystem services in different tropical and subtropical regions with altered fire regimes under IFM.

Specific objectives

  1. Development of a knowledge-sharing FIRE-ADAPT international network, gathering a key group of researchers, wildfire management agencies, and non-profit organisations.
  2. Provide scientific evidence on the needs and potential impacts of IFM on the societal and ecological dynamics of tropical and subtropical regions.
  3. Sharing and integrating approaches and knowledge among scientists, practitioners and the wider society to evaluate IFM.
  4. Develop shared methodologies to plan and execute IFM practices and monitor its effectiveness in the maintenance of ecosystem services, human wellbeing and wildfire risk reduction.
  5. Enhance scientists’ early career perspectives.

Study hubs

They are single or multiple regions within a country where FIRE-ADAPT activities and secondment network concentrate, and where inter-sectorial and interdisciplinary exchanges occur. Some of the events will be open to external participation to maximise engagement of the international, regional and local scientific, practitioner communities and other groups of interest.

More information about each study hub here.

Secondments

They are research stays of FIRE-ADAPT researchers at partner organisations. These secondments will promote training and foster exchanges between different academic cultures. 

Work packages

The project´s methodology is based on a joint work across the work packages.

Leader:

Objectives:

Estimate the effects of IFM practices (e.g., burning, silvicultural, understory clearing) on fire hazard, stand carbon stocks and dynamics in tropical and subtropical regions. We will study key ecosystem compartments, including vegetation biomass and growth, coarse and fine woody debris, litter, and organic and mineral soil layers.

Leaders:

Objectives:

Identify in which biomes fire promotes biodiversity and therefore natural fire regimes can benefit conservation. We will explore how the biodiversity from different biomes in tropical and subtropical regions is affected by fire and could be better managed using IFM. Potential drawbacks of fire use on biodiversity will be also addressed.

Leaders:

Objectives:

Formulate, promote, and implement IFM practices and/or public policies through enabling an intercultural and participatory vision of fire management. This will be based on the integration of actors and sectors, their experiences acquired throughout the project which will connect diverse histories, disciplines, methodologies, and sectoral experience of fire management.

Leader:

Objectives:

Provide the modeling and forecasting expertise on WP1, WP2 and WP4, contributing to interdisciplinarity.

Leader:

Objectives:

Provide a forum for exchange between the researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders engaged in WP1-4 through six transversal study hubs (Spain, Mexico, Brazil, France, Argentina, Italy), four study tours (Spain, Brazil, Italy and France), a prescribed burning exchange (Mexico), an interdisciplinary symposium (Argentina), and a final conference (Italy).

Leader:

Objectives:

Coordinate the dissemination, communication, outreach and exploitation actions to ensure the impact of FIRE-ADAPT

Leader:

Objectives:

Provide support to the consortium for an efficient implementation of the project; to communicate with the EU and provide the appropriate reporting; and to ensure the best possible implementation of the project by taking into account data management, and ethics.