Solutions for Fire Resilient Territories in Europe / Part 2
Tracks
Infante Room
| Tuesday, May 16, 2023 |
| 6:15 PM - 7:45 PM |
| Workshop |
Details
The focus of the Workshop is on communicating innovations in i) integrated fire management, ii) technical innovations, iii) stakeholder engagement and risk communication strategies, as well as iv) policy coherence and risk management; and demonstrating its application to bridge the gap between science and practice.
We propose two blocks each with specific themes and moments of interaction with the audience. In order, to facilitate audience interaction, a mobile APP (Mentimeter) will be used during the Workshop.
Target audience : The Workshop brings together knowledge and experience in methodologies, systems, actions, and tools across wildfire resilient landscape themes to communicate recent findings and accelerate the transfer of knowledge and best practices to stakeholders, policymakers, and multi-forest actors; Additionally, empowering the WFRM community to address current and future wildfire challenges.
~2nd part – structure
The second part (80’) will include three projects sharing different levels/approaches to stakeholder engagement: local communities – FIRE-RES; cross-sectoral actors and policies at EU level - Firelogue; and practitioners and end-users – ResAlliance. Focuses on stakeholder's engagement and policy needs, namely “Why”, “What” and “How” each project is devoted to promoting knowledge sharing and networking about user needs.
Finally, a common discussion session asking for audience interaction to discuss the interconnection of multi-stakeholder engagement across projects: How to move forward towards effectively engage stakeholders' needs and views in the integrated implementation of WFRM and related policies?
PART 1 .
OPENING SESSION
16.30 – 16.45
Carlos Fonseca (FWISE), Antoni Trasobares (CTFC)
FIRE-RES innovative solutions
16.45 – 18.00
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), Pau Brunet (CTFC)
FIRE-RES project presentation & landscape planning [15’]
Antoni Trasobares (CTFC), FIRE-RES coordination
Estimation of fire impact on Wildland-Urban Interface [10’]
Anthony Graziani (CNR)
Fire-smart spatial and urban planning [10’]
Marta Serra (CTFC)
Air pollution impacts – wearable & environmental devices [15’]
Mar Viana (CSIC) & Duarte Dias (INESC TEC)
Integrative system to support EWE decision-making [10’]
Adrian Cardil (Tecnosylva)
Open Innovation Campaign [10’]
Siebe Briers (EFI)
Q&A [10’]
COFFEE BREAK
18.00 – 18.15
Including wearable & environmental sensors demonstration (CSIC & INESC TEC)
PART 2
STAKEHOLDERS' ENGAGEMENT AND POLICY NEEDS
18.15 – 19.35
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), Pau Brunet (CTFC)
FIRE-RES. Engaging communities [15’]
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), FIRE-RES: Community of Wildfire Innovation
Conceição Colaço (CEABN), FIRE-RES: Fire Education Platform
FIRELOGUE. Cross-sector dialogue at EU level [15’]
Claudia Berchtold (Fraunhofer INT): How to engage stakeholders and policy needs?
Eduard Plana (CTFC): Policies from a WFRM perspective (?)
ResAlliance: a Mediterranean knowledge exchange network on landscape resilience [15’]
Eduard Mauri (EFI), ResAlliance: ResAlliance introduction
Gavriil Xanthopoulos (DEMETER): ResAlliance stakeholder engagement
Common discussion [35’]
Eduard Plana (CTFC)
Claudia Berchtold (Fraunhofer INT)
Gavriil Xanthopoulos (DEMETER)
CLOSING SESSION
19.35 – 19.45
Antoni Trasobares (CTFC), Pau Brunet (CTFC),
Brigite Botequim (ForestWISE), Sandra Valente (ForestWISE)
Speaker
Brigite Botequim
Senior Researcher
Colab ForestWISE
Chair and Speaker
Biography
Ph.D. in Forestry and Natural Resources by the School of Agriculture (2015, ISA, ULisboa), MSc in Statistics and Information Management - GIS, Demographic and Environmental (ISEGI, ULisboa, 2008), BSc in Forest Engineering (ESACB, 2002). Since 2021, Senior researcher at ForestWISE (Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest and Fire Management) - Campus UTAD (Vila Real) with the aim of building a cohesive approach to overcome rural fires under current challenges (e.g., climate change, multiple demands, collaborative needs, participatory concerns) faced by all actors involved in forest ecosystem management planning. She is currently deputy coordinator of the FIRE-RES Project (2021-2025) “Innovative technologies and socio-ecological and economic solutions for fire-resistant territories in Europe”, funded by the H2020 of the European Union, at ForestWISE and co-leads the Portuguese Living Lab.
Previously, 6-years assistant researcher and member of the FORCHANGE research line at the Forest Research Centre (CEF) in ISA. Moreover, she has 7-years of professional experience at non-profit organizations, state agencies, as well as national consultancy in the field of fire management planning of Mediterranean species; combined with research experience since 2008 as member integrated at CEF. Over the past 15-years, she has made substantial contributions to the development of tools to support the design of wildfire resilient landscapes, and to assess ecosystem services from a practical-methodological perspective to drive forest management decisions. Furthermore, these findings were actively discussed with forest actors in several workshops, with the aim of developing sustainable management strategies and enhancing resilient landscapes.
Pau Brunet
Ctfc
Chair
Biography
Dr. Brunet-Navarro is the deputy coordinator of the H2020 project FIRE-RES (Innovative technologies & socio-ecological-economic solutions for fire resilient territories in Europe) at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) since 2022. He belongs to the Bioeconomy, health, and governance group of CTFC where, besides coordinating FIRE-RES, he rises financing from competitive calls. His main expertise and research interest lies in harvested wood products carbon accounting, wood-based construction, and circular bioeconomy.
PhD in Bioscience Engineering (KU Leuven, BE), MSc in Nature and Forest Conservation (WUR, NL) and MSc in European Forestry (UEF, FI) with a background (BSc) on Forest Engineering (UdL, ES). Previously, he coordinated European projects at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2017-2022). He was a Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany (2013-2017). He also enjoyed secondments and other experiences in different institutions such as the Technical University of Munich (Germany), INRAE (France), or SLU (Sweden) among others.
Antoni Trasobares
Director - coordinator FIRE-RES
Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya
Speaker
Biography
PhD in Forest Science and Economics, MSc Forestry, BSc Agricultural Engineering. His expertise lies in research, technology transfer and applied projects in forest management, circular bioeconomy, and the environment in general.
Director of CTFC since 2016, promotes the development of research excellence and strategic transfer of project results such as the Bioeconomy Strategy 2030 for Catalonia.
General Director of Natural Resources and Biodiversity (2013-2016) of the Department of Agriculture, Government of Catalonia, when he was in charge of forest fires prevention in the region (increasing CAP resources on fire prevention for the period 2014-2020; implementing various restoration projects such as the 12.000 ha forest fire in la Jonquera, 2012), promoted the Bioeconomy concept in the Catalan forest sector, through measures such as the Strategy for the energetic use of forest biomass, New management and mobilization model for the public forests, and New regulation for using local timber in the construction and rehabilitation of public buildings.
Previously, he developed models and strategies to adapt forest management to climate change in the FP7 MOTIVE and FP6 EFORWOOD projects. Consultant at Foreco Technologies SL (2004-2009), specialized in forest and environmental resources management planning, with direct relation to clients and end-users.
Conceição Colaço
Invited researcher
University of Lisbon
Speaker
Biography
Researcher at the Center for Applied Ecology Professor Baeta Neves (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), University of Lisbon and Researcher at the Associated Laboratory InBIO (Research Network on Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology), being currently the coordinator at CEABN of the Research Area Agro-environmental Education and Knowledge Dissemination
Forest Engineer by the Higher Institute of Agronomy has the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Environmental Education and the PhD in Education from the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Since 2000, she coordinates the CEABN / ISA environmental education program. Coordinated the "Forests Environmental Education Manual" edited by the National Forest Authority, co-author the FAO / UN Handbook on "Cape Verde Forests: A Good to Protect", and other editions for the general public such as agendas CTT for the international years for biodiversity and forests. In 2007/8 she was an FAO / UN consultant in Cape Verde in the area of forest fire prevention. National and international consultant in the area of forests, communities, and rural fires, for institutions such as FAO/UN, ICNF, AGIF, among others.
She has participated in several European research projects both in the area of risk and forest fires and education for the forest. In recent years, her main research topics have been the social dimension of the forest and forest fires. Member of the bodies of the Portuguese Association of Environmental Education, the Portuguese Society of Forestry Sciences and FSC Portugal.
Claudia Berchtold
Coordinator of the Firelogue Project
Speaker
Biography
Claudia Berchtold (female), PhD, is a senior researcher and project manager at Fraunhofer INT, Unit for Technology and Innovation Planning.
She is involved in research on Disaster Risk and Crisis Management and the related use of innovative technologies and processes.
She currently coordinates the Green Deal Wildfire Risk Management Coordination and Support Action (CSA) Firelogue.
Claudia furthermore implemented projects for DG ECHO such as the Peer Review Programme in the framework of EU cooperation on civil protection and disaster risk management (2017-2019) or the pilot project “Network of European Hubs for Civil Protection and Crisis Management”.
She has a background in European Studies (M.A.) as well as European Law and Legal Philosophy (PhD). Before joining Fraunhofer INT, Claudia was employed as EU Consultant at the University of Cologne and has worked for the Institute for Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University (UNU-EHS).
In the latter context, she was responsible for several research projects concerned with risk and vulnerability assessments towards natural hazards, focusing on civil society and critical infrastructure. She contributed to the development of assessment frameworks and their implementation by the means of indicators and was involved in teaching activities on Disaster Risk Management
Sandra Valente
Senior reseacher
Collaborative Laboratory For Integrated Forest & Fire Management
Speaker
Biography
Sandra Valente is a senior research at ForestWISE COLAB.
She holds a European Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering (UA, 2013) and MSc in Sociology: Local Policies and Decentralization (UC, 2008).
As coordinator of the workline 4: ‘People and Policies’, she has been dedicated to research and knowledge transfer in the areas of social perceptions of forest and fire, stakeholder engagement and management, and public policies impact assessment.
In the last 20 years, worked at CESAM – Centre for Environment and Marine Studies (UA), having participated in more than 20 European and national projects, published more than 20 articles in international journals and more than 100 papers in conferences and scientific events, in expertise areas linked to social perceptions of the environment and natural risks and public participation in the management of natural resources and forest management.
Eduard Mauri
ResAllience Project Coordinator
Speaker
Biography
Eduard Mauri works as expert at the European Forest Institute’s Mediterranean Facility since 2018.
He holds a degree in Forest Management and M.Sc.A. in Forest Sciences from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada).
For more than ten years he has developed applied research and knowledge transfer projects in silviculture and sustainable forest management in Canada, Spain and France.
He is the main author of the Handbook of good practices in post-wildfire management, published by the University of Girona (Spain).
At the European Forest Institute, he is involved in projects related to wildfires, landscape resilience and knowledge transfer
Eduard Plana
Head of Forest Policy and Risk Governance
Ctfc
Speaker
Biography
Forest engineer and Msc in Wildfire Risk Management. Head of the Forest Policy and Risk Governance department at Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC). His main R+D activities deals with inclusive wildfire risk management, environmental governance and communication and strategic forest planning, looking into the evolving forest and society relationship. He is currently leading of fire-smart policy coherence and planning task at FIRE RES and the Working Group Environment/Ecology in Firelogue, two EU H2020 projects funded by H2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Green Deal Call)
Gavriil Xanthopoulos
DEMETER – ResAllience Project
Speaker
Biography
Dr. Gavriil Xanthopoulos holds a B.Sc. degree in Forestry from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Forestry with specialization in Forest Fire Science from the University of Montana, U.S.A.
He has been active in European forest fire research for more than 30 years.
He has extensive experience in forest fire management training and post-graduate university teaching and has produced numerous scientific publications.
He currently serves as research director on forest fires and is head of the Forest Fire Laboratory at the Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization "Dimitra".
