Ces recommandations volontaires non contraignantes établissent le cadre des principes directeurs prioritaires qui aideront à la formulation de conditions politiques, légales et réglementaires et d’autres conditions habilitantes, et les actions stratégiques permettront des approches plus holistiques de la gestion des feux. Elles ont été avant tout conçues pour les législateurs dans le domaine de l’utilisation du sol,...

Fire is a natural disturbance event that has also been used by humans for millennia as a tool to manipulate their environment. Fire still plays an essential role in many societies today; however, fire is not always used appropriately and can often be damaging. The danger is exacerbated by issues such as changes in land use, increasing population in rural areas, inadequate or inappropriate policy, and climate change. Traditional fire...

This global overview of fires in vegetation is based on 12 regional working paper submitted mainly by representatives of the UN-ISDR Global Wildland Fire Network in late 2005. Although many of the countries concerned aknowledged that the reliability of the information may not be hight, it is nevertheless the best estimate of the forest fire situation to date and gives a good indication of the scale of the impact of vegetation...

Fire is an important land management tool, but careless or criminal use of fire may have catastrophic impacts. Wildfire can be a major cause of ecpsystem degradation and may result in loss of human life, economic devastation, social disruption and environmental deterioration. Each year fires destroy millions of hectares of valuable timber, other forest products, and environmantal services provided by forest ecosystems.