Critical wildfires were the significant natural hazard threatening the EU and the Mediterranean, during the last month (July 2023). Almost 260,000 ha have already been burnt in the EU since January 2023. Critical fires have spread in Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, and Greece causing human casualties and massive environmental and economic damage, according to the monitoring reports of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) through the European Forest Fire Information System in the EU’s Copernicus Emergency Management Service.
ESReDA sheds light in the Newsletter on the EU’s efforts in reinforcing its Wildfire Risk Management process across Europe. ESReDA presents the following two articles relative to EU efforts, entitled: “Cross-Sector Dialogue for Wildfire Risk Management” and “How do wildfires threaten critical infrastructure and vice versa?”.
The first article overviews the Support Action Firelogue as one of the most promising EU multidisciplinary actions.
The second article examines in more detail the dialectic between man-made infrastructure and naturemade infrastructure considering the risk of exposure to wildfires.
Given that the resilience of man-made and nature-made assets can’t be examined separately, wildfire risk management should be thought of globally.
Read the full article HERE.
