FIRE-RES General Meeting: Financial innovation for landscapes resilient to extreme fires

29 January 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

From October 8 to 10, 2024, the FIRE-RES project held its general meeting in Bordeaux and Mimizan, bringing together researchers, local stakeholders, and European partners from the 11 Living Labs.

Enabling sustainable management of fast-growing trees at scale: outcomes from the 27th Session of the International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and the Environment (IPC)

29 January 2025 0 Comments 1 tag

By Faustine Zoveda, Laureana de Prado, and Thais Linhares-Juvenal, FAO The 27th Session of the International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and the Environment (IPC27), hosted

Polyphasic approach to the selection of Esteya isolates for the control of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

29 January 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Pine wilt disease, caused by the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is a major phytosanitary concern to pine forests worldwide. Managing pine wilt disease involves a complex logistical undertaking, with limited

Estimating the value of forests: Forest economics – with application to maritime pine in south-west France – Jean-Philippe Terreaux

29 January 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

To buy, sell, trade or pass on a forest or forest plot, it is essential to know how to determine its value.  However, this is an asset, a very specific,

Forest fires: what R&D prospects for risk prevention in the context of climate change?

2 October 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Cécile Nivet, RMT AFORCE project manager, CNPF-IDF; François Morneau, RMT AFORCE coordinator, CNPF-IDF; Christophe Chantepy, national DFCI expert, ONF; Eric Rigolot, research engineer, INRAE – URFM; Isabelle Bertrand, DFCI project

Worldwide Tree-Pulling Database hosted by IEFC

2 October 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Barry Gardiner and Suraj Kanwar This database brings together data from tree removal experiments conducted by a large number of colleagues around the world. To date, we have over 3,000

Workshop “FIRE-FORUM”: improving the resilience of territories to fire risk through participative approaches

29 April 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The “FIRE FORUM” workshop held in Girona on 6 and 7 March, organised by the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS), was a valuable meeting for IEFC. The event, part

Despite the fire risk, Australia wants to plant 400,000ha of forest by 2050

26 April 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Caught between a rising demand for timber, the difficulty of meeting national carbon reduction targets and pressure from environmentalists who have secured a ban on all timber harvesting in native