IA 2.4. Optimizing landscape configuration and fire management policies to minimize expected losses from EWE
OVERVIEW
What kind of result is this? | Updated tool | |
What’s the area addressed? | Ecosystem Conservation and Landscape Design | |
What’s the covered phase? | Prevention & Preparedness | |
What’s the addressed challenge? | This Innovation Action has 2 components dealing with the same problem using different approaches.
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What value is proposed? | This IA will help forest management agencies to modernize their approach to prioritizing land management investments. The IA will build a system that can model spatially explicit management scenarios across scales ranging from projects, forests, regions and nationwide. The framework can be coupled with other models and management assessments and applied to a wide range of scenarios. | |
Who can use it? | Policymakers and Forest Managers | |
What type of tool is it? | Model, Maps, Reports | |
How does it look like? | Optimization tools, model-ready datasets, guidelines | |
This tool is… | ⊠ a new tool | ⊠ an improved tool |
What are the vision & mission statement? | Combining fire simulators and fuel management evaluation systems, this IA will test and optimize short term fuel management policies. It will use stochastic fire simulations to estimate landscape locations with expected community and other values-at-risk exposure and the Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) / ForSys to quickly test different management policies. Afterwards, it will use new optimization methods to select the most efficient way to allocate fuel management to mitigate EWE impact. | |
When will it be complete? | Spring 2025 | |
Documentation | TBA | |
This IA is implemented in the Living Lab(s)… |
Contact
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Prof. Kostas Kalabokidis
- University of Aegean
- kalabokidis@aegean.gr
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Palaiologou Palaiologos
- University of the Aegean
- palaiologou.p@aegean.gr
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José Borges
- Instituto Superior de Agronomia - ULisboa
- joseborges@isa.ulisboa.pt