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Se ha observado que comúnmente las instancias, organizaciones, grupos y personas dedicadas al manejo de fuego dejan de lado, no valoran o desestiman la inversión en el capital humano a través del desarrollo de capacidades técnicas, siendo común, la percepción de que es un gasto y este es no reembolsable. Aunado a esta problemática se tiene el continuo cambio del personal experimentado y capacitado, ya sea por cambios de administración, problemas en la gestión - liderazgo y mecanismos de contratación con modalidades eventuales o temporales. Lo anterior, genera que las estructuras operacional...

Estas memorias resumen el resultado de un simposio diseñado para discutir los problemas actuales que confrontan las agencias con responsabilidad para la protección contra incendios forestales a nivel federal y estadual en los EE.UU., al igual que agencias en la comunidad internacional. Los temas discutidos en el simposio incluyen servicios ambientales e incendios forestales: perspectiva nacional e internacional, teoría y modelos para la planificación estratégica de incendios, análisis económico y el manejo integral del fuego, incendios forestales y manejo sustentable de bosques, políticas...

En este trabajo, describimos las actividades internacionales realizadas por la FAO y sus pares a través del tiempo y hacemos una reflexión sobre el rol de las relaciones internacionales en reducir los efectos de los incendios forestales en los servicios ambientales. Por mucho tiempo la FAO ha tenido un enfoque en el manejo de los incendios forestales y ha sido uno de los organismos internacionales en facilitar el desarrollo de un enfoque comprensivo del Manejo Integrado de los Incendios mediante la aplicación de la 5 Rs: Revisión y Análisis, reducción de Riesgo, Preparación (en inglés...

This report is based on the final version of the Humboldt marten (Martes caurina humboldtensis) conservation assessment and strategy submitted on September 30, 2017 by the Humboldt Marten Conservation Group. This assessment and strategy was developed in response to the decline of the Humboldt marten throughout most of its historical range in California and Oregon. The first four chapters synthesize the state of the knowledge on the Humboldt marten and relevant ecological and management aspects of the forest habitats it occupies. The final chapter identifies overall conservation goals,...

The leading role of native peoples in natural disaster management within the framework of the Promotion of Food Security and Social Inclusion in the Lempa Region of Western Honduras Program (PROSADE LEMPA) involves: Actions aimed at reducing the imminent risk to remnant forests and the most vulnerablepopulations due to "Natural Disaster" caused by fires and pests. The participation of key actors such as indigenous peoples, government, civil society,private enterprise and international cooperation in fire management. Systematization of PROSADE LEMPA’s experience with vulnerable populations...

Tree vegetation was evaluated through the establishment of 14 Permanent Monitoring Plots (PMP) in "Cerro Azul" Meambar National Park (PANACAM), located in central Honduras. The plots were distributed in four elevational ranges (900 - 1,200, 1,200 - 1,500; 1,500 - 1,800 and 1,800 - 2,080 m), where a total of 1,896 individuals belonging to 231 species, 135 genera and 69 families were recorded. No significant differences were found for richness, diversity and structure between the elevational ranges; however, there is a low similarity in species composition between ranges, where those that...

The limited availability of resources for wildfire management necessitates prioritizing forest areas for protection. For this purpose, criteria such as fire risk are used to generate thematic maps intended to support decision-making. However, prior to this, the information must be validated under a statistically robust process. Unfortunately, no such process currently exists, so it must be formulated from the most basic aspect, which is the definition of the sampling unit. This was the objective of this study, where different-sized reference sites (RSs) were tested under four sampling...

Even when they account for a large part of damages caused by forest fires on environmental and landscape services they are seldom included in the valuation of damage assessments. Some fires within natural parks have caused significantly larger impacts on these environmental and landscape services (nonmarket) than on market services. The economic valuation of forest fires impacts on environmental and landscape services requires indirect valuation techniques like the travel cost or contingent valuation methods. There are differences on welfare estimates depending on the geographic zone...

Generation of information about fire environments and forest fuel beds is essential to know the behavior of wildfires. Developing experimental models in laboratories can be costly and time-consuming. One alternative is to take advantage of the empirical knowledge of people with experience in fire management and wildfire fighting. In order to collect empirical information on the fire environment to evaluate and describe forest fuel beds in different ecosystems in Mexico, four participatory workshops were held. These workshops were held in four venues covering the North, Central, West and...

In the field of geographic information systems (GIS) there are certain tasks that are performed repetitively and are thus sometimes monotonous, where it is necessary to structure, integrate and analyze a series of georeferenced information, which, however, always carries the same sequence. Therefore, we developed a sequential model which allows automating certain processes in the definition of priority wildfire protection areas. For this, we used the Model Builder tool (ArcGis), which is based on a visual programming language that allows structuring the sequence of processes. To illustrate...