Fire Suppression and Fuel Management in Eastern Europe: Research Advances and Best Practices

Dear Colleagues,

Wildfire science has made substantial progress towards mitigating and explaining the increasing societal concerns about fire effects on natural and social systems. These advances are both conceptual and applied, including topics, among others, such as how fires are spread, use of sensors and technology for early warning and monitoring of fire spread, advanced planning of alternative forest management scenarios, sophisticated fire modeling software, and informed fire hazard estimation. These major breakthroughs, although accomplished mostly in countries with a legacy in wildfire research, such as the USA, Australia, Portugal and Spain, were successfully disseminated to other regions of the world and adapted to local conditions. As a result, a new generation of fire scientists emerged in these countries which, in turn, are making considerable progress in how fire is perceived, confronted and used, and how forests and fuels are managed in relation to fire risk. This Special Issue “Fire Suppression and Fuel Management in Eastern Europe: Research Advances and Best Practices” aims to cover recent developments in Fire and Forest Management science in the countries of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Caucasus and Turkey. Submitted papers should clearly show novel contributions and innovative applications of how science can support any of the following fire-related topics (but are not limited to these):

• Wildfire risk estimation and behavior modeling;
• Forest management with emphasis on vegetation fuel reduction;
• Silviculture;
• Fire suppression tactics;
• Fire hazard;
• Protection of the wildland–urban interface;
• Protection of values-at-risk and critical infrastructure;
• Fire and radiation issues (i.e., the Chernobyl disaster);
• Fire–climate interactions.

Dr. Palaiologos Palaiologou
Guest Editor

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