The second major event of the PLURIFOR project in 2018 took place in Porto (Portugal) during the EFI Planted Forests Facility & IEFC Annual Meeting. This event was a great opportunity to discover the major impact of the recent large wildfires in the area, and to explore the trends in major forest risks and the risk management plans prepared by the project partners to address these risks trans-nationally.
Programmes:
Scientific seminar programme (with presentation of PLURIFOR outputs, 27 June)
Field trip on risk management in planted forests (Northern Portugal, 28 June)
Presentations:
Session 1: Trends and actions in Atlantic EU
Fires trends and state of play after the 2017 fires:
- Governance and management of rural fires in Portugal (Tiago Oliveira, Head of the Special Unit for Portuguese Wildfire Management)
- Incendios forestales en Galicia (Francisco Fernández de Ana Magán, President of the Asociación Forestal de Galicia)
- Defense des Forets Contre les Incendies en Aquitaine(Pierre Mace, ARDFCI)
Global Change and Abiotic Risk Trends in the EU (Hervé Jactel, INRA)
Global Change and Abiotic Risk Trends in the EU (Barry Gardiner, EFIPLANT)
Session 2: International decisions & actions for CC adaptation & risk mitigation
Policies and actions at global, pan-European and EU levels:
- Planted Forests in FAO actions for Climate and Development (Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff, FAO)
- EU Commission EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Forest and CC (Dan Burgar Kuželički, European Commission)
- Progressing towards a European Forest Risk Facility (Alexander Held, EFI)
Session 3: PLURIFOR contribution to improving transboundary preparedness
Overview (Eduard Mauri, EFI)
Wind risk (Barry Gardiner, EFI)
Fire risk (Alejandro Cantero, HAZI)
Soil degradation (Anders Arias Gonzalez, NEIKER)
Pine wood nematode (Hervé Jactel, INRA)
Chestnut gall wasp (Edmundo Susa)
Eucalyptus weevil (Manuela Branco, ISA)
Pine Pitch Canker (Julio Diez, UVa)
Emerging and invasive forest pests and diseases (Hervé Jactel, INRA)
SilvaAlert App (Christophe Orazio, EFI)