IA 2.6 Designing post-fire restoration strategies

What kind of result is this?

Report on a validated methodology and MCDA system for prioritising post-fire restoration actions in recently burnt areas.

What’s the area addressed?

Ecosystem Conservation and Landscape design
Landscape management 

What’s the covered phase?

Restoration and adaptation

What’s the addressed challenge?

Ensuring the future provision of ecosystem services (ES) facilitating the development of landscapes that are better adapted to future fires.

What value is proposed?

By combining information on the current condition of the burnt area (i.e. the severity of the fire), ecological principles (structure and composition of vegetation before and after the fire), and environmental and management constraints, we will determine which areas within the burnt perimeter have a higher priority for restoration and which management actions need to be implemented. The basis of the restoration plan will be based on a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) based on the needs and rules defined by a multi-stakeholder panel.

Who can use it?

Administration and forest planners and managers

What type of tool is it?

Multi-criteria analysis tool for the prioritisation of advanced restoration actions to facilitate cost-effective post-fire recovery. Parameters include fine-grained pre-fire vegetation, burn severity and ecological conditions, as well as monetary and operational constraints, etc.

This tool is…

☐ a new tool

⊠ an improved tool

What are the vision & mission statement?

The recover of vegetation will restore an important carbon pool damaged by fire. A successful restoration plan will help restore most of the carbon sink while improving the resilience of future landscapes. This IA will have a direct impact on post-fire decision making.

Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

6

Documentation

D2.7 Designing post-fire restoration strategies

Casados S. M., Rodríguez-Fernández S., Marques S., Monsalve Cuartas A.M., de Frutos S., Coll L., Borges J.G. 2025. A participatory multi-criteria approach to post-fire restoration planning after extreme wildfire events. Forests 16, 1090.

This IA is implemented in the Living Lab(s)…

Catalonia, Canary Islands, Portugal