| dc.contributor.author | Meira Castro, Ana C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Meixido, João Paulo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-13T12:12:01Z | |
| dc.date.embargo | 2117 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prescribed fires in forest areas are frequently used in most Mediterranean countries as a preventive technique to avoid several wildfires in the summer season. In Portugal this forest management pratice is a common tool used for biota control and for reduction of forest fuel mass availability, and therefore to promote the reduce of wildfire occurrence and a shorter fire suppression effort. Although the use of precribed fire has been shown to be beneficial - as annual statistical reports confirm the the decrease of wildfires accurrence has a direct relationship with the controlled fire practice - serious side effects, in some forest soil properties, were also reported. Taking in consideration the pros and cons, ICNF - the Portuguese Institute of Nature and Forest Conservation - still adopts the use of prescribed fires nowadays as a tool for the maintenance of forest sustainability. In this work, we describe the use of prescribed fire in Portugal under a forest management perspective and we reflect over the evolution of the term forest sustainability in the last decades and how it played an important role on forest management options. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10400 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Nova Science Publishers | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Prescribed fire | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Forest management | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Forest sustainability | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Portugal | pt_PT |
| dc.title | The use of prescribed fire in Portugal as a tool for forest management | pt_PT |
| dc.type | book part | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 235 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 229 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Wildfires | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Meira Castro | |
| person.givenName | Ana C. | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 4114-8077-FF55 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-5579-6550 | |
| person.identifier.rid | A-3027-2012 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 37070861900 | |
| rcaap.rights | closedAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | bookPart | pt_PT |
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