RT Journal Article
T1 Different Strategies for Resilience to Wildfires: The Experience of Collective Land Ownership in Galicia (Northwest Spain)
A1 Marey Pérez, Manuel
A1 Loureiro Veira, Xurxo
A1 Corbelle Rico, Eduardo José
A1 Fernández Filgueira, Cristina
K1 Resilience
K1 Forest fires
K1 Common lands
AB Resilience is not a particularly novel concept, but it has recently become frequently used as a measurement indicator of adaptation capacity under different approaches depending on the field of study. Ideally, for example, forest ecosystems would be resilient to wildfires, one of the most serious types of perturbation they are subjected to. In areas such as the northwest of Spain, a region with one of the most severe records of wildfire occurrence in western Europe, resilience indicators should be related with changes in land planning aimed to minimize the effects of forest fires. This article aimed to analyze the fire resilience strategies of a selected group of forest communities in northwest Spain. More specifically, the perceived risk of wildfires was compared with the actual record of fire events in these communities and the presence or absence of adaptive changes in management practices to reduce risk and improve recovery capacity. A mixed quantitative–qualitative approach was used to gather information about good practices, innovative solutions, and major obstacles for forest fire resilience in Galician common lands. The results suggest that while there is no single form of successful management, a key characteristic of resilient communities is the integration of fire as a management tool
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26241
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26241
LA eng
NO Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 4761; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094761
NO This research was funded by the EU Interreg V-A España-Portugal (POCTEP) program 2014–2020, project 0577-FORVALUE (https://forvalue.eu/ (accessed on 21 April 2021))
DS Minerva
RD 27 abr 2026