GFMC: International Forest Fire News No. 22 – April 2000

International
Forest Fire
News

No. 22 – April 2000

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Editorial

Ethiopia Fire Special

• The Ethiopia Fire Emergency between February and April 2000

Country Notes

Algeria

• Forest Fires in Algeria and the Case of the Domanial Forest of Bou-Taleb, Setif

Brazil

• Ten Years Monitoring and Mapping Fires in Brazil, Current Products and Information Networks

Bulgaria

• The 1998 Forest Fires Season

Cuba

• An Overview on Forest Fires in Cuba

Finland

• New Forest Fire Risk and Fire Behaviour Research Project
• Simulation of Disturbance and Successional Dynamics of Natural and Managed Boreal Forest Landscapes

Greece

• The 1999 Forest Fire Season

India

• Forest Fire Causing Poor Stocking of Santalum Album and Terminalia Chebula in Southern India

Indonesia

• Fire Damages in East Kalimantan in 1997/98: Relations to Land Use and Proposals for Further Action
• Causes and Impacts of Forest Fires: A Case Study from East Kalimantan

Kazakhstan

• Overview on Forest Fires in Kazakhstan

Namibia

• Fire Monitoring and Management in Namibia

Russian Federation

• Ecological and Economic Evaluation of the Consequences of Catastrophic Fires in the Russian Far East
• Forest Fire Problems in 1999 in the Russian Federation

Spain

• Forest Fires in 1999

South Africa

• Fires in the Southern Cape Peninsula, Western Cape Province, South Africa January 2000
• Ecological Requirements for the Maintenance of Western Cape Fynbos Biodiversity and Compromises Recommended to Meet Metropolitan Pressure
• Strategic Fire Protection for the Cape Peninsula: Now is the Time to Start Right Away!
• The Role of Fuel Management and Prescribed Fire in Densely Populated Areas of the Western Cape Region

U.S.A.

• A 1999 Fire Season Retrospective Fire Season Review – Bureau of Land Management – Never Have Seen Anything This Crazy

Research & Technology

Germany

• Autonomous Early Warning System for Forest Fires Tested in Brandenburg

News from International Organizations

• The WHO – UNEP – WMO Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events
• The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) – Building on a ten-year Foundation
• ISDR and the International Fire Community – Transition from the IDNDR Programme to the first Biennium of the ISDR

Recent Publications

• Rainforest Ecosystems of East Kalimantan
• Impacts of Fire and Human Activities on Forest Ecosystems in the Tropics 3rd International Symposium on Asian Tropical Forest Management
• Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest
• Flames in the Rain Forest: Origins, Impacts and Alternatives to Amazonian Fires
• O Megaincêndio do Século – 1998 <The Wildfire of the Century>
• Australian Rainforests – Islands of Green in a Land of Fire
• Incendios Históricos – Una Aproximación Multi-Disciplinar <Historical Forest Fires – A Multidisciplinary Approach>
• Protection contre les incendies de forêt: principes et methodes d’action <Forest Fire Protection: Principles and Methods>

Meetings Planned for 2000

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