Pinet 2018 fire three days after the fire was extinguished. The flames ravaged more than 3,000 hectares in August 2018, in seven municipalities and three counties.
Pinet 2018 fire three days after the fire was extinguished. The flames ravaged more than 3,000 hectares in August 2018, in seven municipalities and three counties. The University of Valencia (UV) leads the FIRElinks project, a 4-year COST action of the European Union, in which 38 countries participate and with a total endowment of one million euros, which aims to investigate how to avoid or mitigate the large fires, which are becoming more and more frequent, which are caused by forest growth and climate change. Artemi Cerdà, professor of Physical Geography at the UV, works in areas affected by fires or that may be, in countries such as Bulgaria, Holland, Turkey, Spain or Germany, to establish work networks with scientific, managerial, political and professional personnel, and also with owners. Professor Cerdà coordinates a scientific and professional network involved in the investigation of fires whose objective is the exchange of knowledge on the dynamics of fire, the management of the risk of fire, the effects of fire on vegetation, fauna, soil and water, and the socioeconomic, historical, political, perception and geographic impacts of the presence of fire. "The big fires - those involving more than 500 hectares - are mainly caused by changes in land use. The rural exodus has caused and continues to cause a massive abandonment of agricultural farms, spaces that are filled with forests with little or no management, and that, with climate change as an aggravating factor, are leading to the fires that we are experiencing and that will grow in number and volume in the next few years if we don't put solutions in place", explains Artemi Cerdà.
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