IDNDR: Report on Early Warning for Fire and Other Environmental Hazards
United Nations
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
IDNDR Early Warning Programme
Report on Early Warning for
Fire and Other Environmental Hazards
Convener of International Working Group, and first Author*:
Dr. Johann G. Goldammer
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department
Fire Ecology Research Group, Freiburg University
Freiburg GERMANY
* Contributers are listed in Chapter V
IDNDR Secretariat, Geneva October 1997
General Remarks on Fire Hazard
Recent Major Fire Events and Fire Losses
Impacts of Fire on the Environment
Early Warning Systems in Fire Management and Smoke Management
Relation to Other IDNDR Early Warning Working Group Reports
II. HAZARD ASSESSMENT AS THE BASIS OF RISK ANALYSIS
Fire Danger Rating
Use of Satellite Data to Help Assess Fire Potential
Fire Weather Forecast
Active Fire Detection by Satellite Sensors
Atmospheric Pollution Warning
Climate-Change/Fire Risk Modelling
Towards a Global Wildland Fire Information System
III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
International Initiatives and Non-Binding International Guidelines
Science and Technology Development
Recommendations on Early Warning for Fire and Other Environmental Hazards