- Author
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Title
- International Forest Fire News.
- Coporate
- United Nations, Geneva
- Report
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No. 30
January/June 2004
118 p.
- Keywords
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forest fires
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management systems
- Identifiers
- international wildland fire summit; nternational cooperation in wildland fire management special; Israel; Russian Federation
- Abstract
- Fires are one of the major causes of ecological, social and economic damage to forests in Europe, especially southern Europe, and North America, destroying or severely damaging every year hundreds of thousands of hectares, causing major damage to property, sometimes loss of life, and often preventing the establishment of ecologically balanced and resilient ecosystems. The causes of fires are complex, with sociological, economic, climatic and forest management aspects. The importance of fire issues, and the necessity to take an international approach has been widely recognised, and there are a number of major initiatives under way, some of which are described in this issue of International Forest Fire News. Communication between experts, and with policy makers and opinion formers is of the greatest importance to spread knowledge of the situation, its causes and possible solutions, and to promote synergies at the interagency level. UNECE and FAO, with the eight co-sponsors whose logos appear on the inside front cover, are happy to offer International Forest Fire News as a communication vehicle to the international forest fire community. Its usefulness is evident from the strong and continuously growing demand there is for IFFN.