Fireadapt

STUDY HUBS

France

Organisers

The Mediterranean region of France comprises three regions with characteristic fire regimes and associated challenges: Provence (extremely fire-prone, densely populated, tourism), Languedoc (wind-driven fires), and mountains (Alps and Pyrenees, fire-prone, complex topography, high biodiversity, rural economies).

This Study Hub did a tour through the Maritime Alps, the Eastern Pyrenees and Montpellier, with activities that included field trips to plots treated with prescribed burns and affected by wildfires, carrying out prescribed burns, workshops and work packages meetings, and knowledge and experience-exchange session with multiple local actors such as shepherds, ranchers, land managers and practitioners. Also, field data on carbon dynamics were collected.

Dates: 20 January – 6 February 2025.  

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programme 2025

Activities

  • Opening of the France Study Hub.
  • Data collection on Carbon dynamics from plots treated with prescribed burns (work part of WP1-Carbon dynamics).
  • Talks about Integrated Fire Management in France and projects on wildfire risk awareness-rising.   
  • Prescribed burn.
  • Visits to plots treated with prescribed burns and affected by wildfires. 
  • Knowledge and experience exchange with local actors. 

Dissemination on social networks

Activities

  • Working sessions of WP2-Biodiversity conservation, 3-(Inter)cultural services and human well-being, 5-IFM as a climate adaptation approach and 7-Project coordination.
  • Field trip and knowledge and experience exchange with local actors. 

Dissemination on social networks

  • Twitter.
  • LinkedIn.                                                     

Activities

  • WP3 and 5 workshops. 
  • Talks about projects promoting extensive grazing as a tool to prevent large wildfires and about assessing controlled burns. 
  • Visit to an experimental forest. 
  • Visits to plots treated with prescribed burns and managed for grazing.
  • Knowledge and experience exchange with local actors. 

Dissemination on social networks.

  • Twitter: posts of days 29 (1 y 2), 31, and 2.
  • LinkedIn: posts of days 29 (1 y 2), 1 y 2.
  • Facebook: posts of days 30 y 3.
  • Instagram.

Workshop “Building on Insights: Answering Key Questions about Interculturality” (part of WP3). Goal: analyse the material collected during the workshop “Illuminated by Fire: Emerging Paradigms for Integrated Fire Management Policies fuelled by Biocultural Diversities in Latin America and the Caribbean.“