FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FIRE ECONOMICS, PLANNING AND POLICY


FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON
FIRE ECONOMICS, PLANNING AND POLICY: Climate Change and Wildfires

Mexico City, Mexico
November 5-11, 2012
 


Welcome to the Fourth International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: Climate Change and Wildfires. From its inception the intent of the symposium has been to bring to the forefront the relevance of these topics not normally discussed in other wildland fire conferences. Since the Third Symposium held in Carolina, Puerto Rico, disastrous events in the 2007 to 2011 fire seasons, in Australia, China, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and United States, among others, have exacerbated the wildfires problem. Climate change seems to be playing an important role in the problem. Many changes in policy have taken place in response to the new challenges. It is time again to come together as a community of interest to address the ever present wildfire problems and share experiences on how different regions of the world are dealing with in. We hope this forum provides you with information helpful to your decision making process.

You are invited to attend and:

  • Exchange ideas regarding the economics, planning and policies of wildland fire management
  • Share recent developments and technologies for optimizing fire management expenditures
  • Explore tradeoffs between hazardous fuels treatments and wildland fire use, suppression expenditures, and green house gases emissions
  • Examine the relationship between climate change and wildfires.

Who should attend?

  • Wildland fire managers and practitioners
  • Natural resource managers, researchers and educators
  • Foresters
  • Economists
  • Public policy makers
  • Students in fire, forestry and economic sciences

General themes:

  • Climate change and wildfires: reality or illusion?
  • Theory and models for strategic fire planning
  • Economic analysis and integrated wildland fire management
  • Forest fires and sustainable forest management
  • Public policies (national and international level) and the wildland fire management problem
  • Hazardous fuels treatment, wildland fire use and fire suppression activities: Reduction or contribution to green house gases emissions?
  • Examples of fire management plans; strategic fire resource allocation, etc.
  • Round table: Climate Change and Mega Fires: Potential solutions

Deadline for abstract submission:

January 31, 2012

Conference website:
www.simpoeconomicsforestfires.org

Contacts:

In USA:                                                                       In México:
Dr. Armando González-Cabán                                       Dr. Dante Arturo Rodríguez Trejo
USDA Forest Service                                                    Universidad Autónoma Chapingo
Pacific Southwest Research Station                                Departamento de Ciencias Forestales
4955 Canyon Crest Drive                                              Chapingo, Edo de México
Riverside, California 92507                                            CP 56230, Mėxico
Phone: 951.680.1525                                                    Phone: +595 9521500 Ext.5468
Fax: 951.680.1501                                                        Fax: +595 9521637
Email: agonzalezcaban@fs.fed.us                                   Email: dantearturo@yahoo.com


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