November 2002
Forest Resources Development Service Working Paper FP/1
Forest Resources Division FAO, Rome, Italy
Forestry Department
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The present paper is based on work carried out by a team of experts working under the overall coordination of FAO and the Global Fire Monitoring Center, Germany. Members from the FAO/ECE/ILO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire and associated experts also contributed to the development of this Working Paper: Special thanks are due to Cornelius de Ronde (SILVA Forest Services, South Africa), Brian J. Stocks (Canadian Forest Service), Eduard P. Davidenko (National Aerial Forest Fire Center Avialesookhrana, Russian Federation), and Johann G. Goldammer (Global Fire Monitoring Center, Germany). The following scientists contributed to the Fire Management Options tables in ANNEX III: Norman L. Christensen (Duke University, U.S.A.), Stanislav N. Sannikov (Institute of Forest, Ural Division of Russian Academy, Russian Federation), Valentin V. Furyaev, Anatoly I. Sukhinin, Peter Tsvetkov and Luda Zlobina (Forest Fire Laboratory, Sukachev Institute for Forest, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch).
For quotation:
FAO (2002). Guidelines on Fire Management in Temperate and Boreal Forests. Forest Protection Working Papers, Working Paper FP/1/E. Forest Resources Development Service, Forest Resources Division. FAO, Rome (unpublished).
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2. Fire Ecology and Fire Management Principles: Selected examples
2.1 Fire Management in Temperate Africa
2.2 Fire Management in Temperate South America
2.3 Fire Management in Temperate Australasia
2.4 Forest Fire Management in Canada
3. Fire Management in Plantation Forestry (Tables 1b, 2b and 3b)
3.1. External Fire Protection
3.2. Internal Fire Protection
3.3. Using Slash Burning, or Prescribed Burning inside Plantation Stands, as Fuel Management Measures
3.4. Fire Application in Heritage Areas and Nature Reserves
3.5. Wildfire Bufferzoning and other Fire Protection Techniques
4. Fire Management in Rural Areas
4.1 Regulating Fire Application and Grazing in Rural Areas
5. Remote Sensing of Vegetation Fires and its Contribution to a Fire Management Information System
5.1 Introduction to Remote Sensing
5.2 Remote Sensing Products for Fire Management
5.3 Implementing Remote Sensing in a Fire Management Context
6. Fire Protection Planning, Regional Integration and Fire Danger Rating
6.1 Fire Protection Planning
6.2 Regional Integrated Fire Protection
6.3 Fire Danger Rating
7. Fire Detection and Control
7.1 Fire Detection
7.2 Fire Preparedness, Dispatching, and Co-operative Schemes
7.3 Incident Command System
8. Fire Insurance, Economics and Training
8.1 Fire Insurance
8.2 Fire Protection Economics
8.3 Training Issues
9. International Wildland Fire Cooperation
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V