GFMC: International Forest Fire News No. 20 – March1999

International
Forest Fire
News

No. 20 – March 1999

Complete IFFN Issue No. 20 (15.7 MB)

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Editorial

South East Asia Fire Special

• Forest and Land Fire Prevention in Cambodia
• Forest Fire Prevention and Control Strategies in India
• Controlling Forest Fire Incidences by Generating Awareness – A Case Study from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Coimbatore, India
• Wide Area Surveillance System (WAS) Phase I: Transboundary Haze Pollution Control and Monitoring System (THPCM)
• Forest Fires in Lao PDR
• Forest Fire Prevention and Management in Myanmar
• Forest and Land Fire Prevention in Sri Lanka
• International Cross Sectoral Forum on Forest Fire Management in South East Asia, Report of the Meeting

Country Notes

Canada:

• Canada Report 1998

Chile:

• The Chilean Forest Service and its Fire Management Program

Côte d’Ivoire:

• Management and Prevention of Forest Fires in Côte d’Ivoire – SODEFOR’s Forest Fire Protection Programme

Greece:

• The 1998 Fire Season

• The 1998 Forest Fire Season in Greece: A Forest Fire Expert’s Account

Mexico:

• Mexican Fires of 1998

Nicaragua:

• A Survey of Three Successive Recent Fire Seasons

South Africa:

• 1998 A Year of Destructive Wildfires in South Africa

Spain:

• Forest Fires in 1998: An Average Year

News from International Organizations

ECE/FAO

• ECE Forest Fire Statistics 1995-97

FAO

• Final Report of the FAO Consultation “Public Policies Affecting Forest Fires”

• FAO Ministerial Meeting on Forestry on “Sustainability Issues in Forestry, the National and International Challenges”

IDNDR

• Natural Disaster Reduction in Asia

UNEP

• Wildfires and the Environment: A Global Synthesis

UNESCO

• First International Scientific Conference on “Fires in Mediterranean Forests: Prevention, Suppression – Soil Erosion – Reforestation”

World Bank

• Workshop “Fire Hazards, Transboundary Haze and Sustainable Forestry in East Asia and the Pacific”

News from Fire Research

• Prometheus System Validation Fire Experiment in Switzerland
• Workshop on Fire Disturbance in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

Recent Publications

• Fire Management and Landscape Ecology – Proceedings of the 1997 Banyuls Conference

Other Meeting Reports (1998)

• 3rd International Conference on Forest Fire Research & 14th Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Meetings Planned for 1999

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