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In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and
suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe,
burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands.
The management of these burned forests has been given much less
attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the
post-fire management of burned areas raises strong concerns
(economic and social impacts, soil erosion and water quality,
biodiversity loss, forest restoration). Although there are a few
publications which address post-fire management, the focus of these
has been either on general approaches to restoration or specific
topics such as preventing post-fire soil erosion. This book is
about the post-fire management of fire-prone forest types in
southern Europe. It provides the first comprehensive overview of
the topic, ranging from stand-level to landscape-level management,
and from emergency actions to long-term restoration approaches.
The present volume includes papers presented in the International
Symposium on Adaptations to Terrestrial Environment, held in
Halkidiki, Greece from September 26th to October 2nd, 1982, as well
as some invited ones from well known scientists working in the same
field. It seemed rather optimistic to deal just in the same volume
with such a variety of organisms (micro organisms to higher plants)
on the basis of the1r adaptive strategies for survival on land. It
would appear as the entire ecology ought to be included. It was a
challenge for us. We undertook this challenge hoping that the
output would not be unsuccessful. The Editors allowed the authors
of the accepted papers great leeway in terms of thoroughness of
their contributions. The quality of the papers included is high
while some of them had to be rewritten in order to include valuable
comments developed during the Symposium discussions. We have tried
to include many papers from Eastern Europe since generally, because
of the language problem, they do not get widely known. The Editors
wish to express their thankfulness to UNESCO for sponsoring the
Symposium in the frame of Man and Biosphere Program; to all
scientists who have contributed papers in this volume; and to Mrs.
A. Karamanli-Vlahopoulou for her patient and skillful typing of
part of the manuscript."
In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and
suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe,
burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands.
The management of these burned forests has been given much less
attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the
post-fire management of burned areas raises strong concerns
(economic and social impacts, soil erosion and water quality,
biodiversity loss, forest restoration). Although there are a few
publications which address post-fire management, the focus of these
has been either on general approaches to restoration or specific
topics such as preventing post-fire soil erosion. This book is
about the post-fire management of fire-prone forest types in
southern Europe. It provides the first comprehensive overview of
the topic, ranging from stand-level to landscape-level management,
and from emergency actions to long-term restoration approaches.
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