Wildfire prevention requires 'nature-based solutions': Land 'treating us' the way we treat the land
Carys Garland is pleased to welcome Alexander Held, Senior Expert of the Resilience Programme for Integrated Fire Management. Held explains how Europe's escalating wildfire crisis is exposing the limits of a response model built around emergency suppression rather than long-term resilience. He argues that while the European Union has significantly improved its capacity to coordinate firefighting…
Carys Garland introduces Alexander Held, a Senior Expert for the Resilience Programme for Integrated Fire Management. Held discusses Europe's worsening wildfire crisis and the shortcomings of the current approach. Despite the European Union's efforts to improve coordination in firefighting, Held contends that interventions occur too late, once wildfires have spiraled out of control.
His primary point is that the issue lies not just in firefighting but in how we manage our landscapes. Climate change exacerbates the severity of wildfires, but so too do decades of neglect, fuel buildup, altered farming practices, and policies that prioritize visible emergency responses over essential preventive ones.
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