WorldWildfire prevention requires ‘nature-based solutions’: Land ‘treating us’ as we treat it

Europe’s worsening wildfire crisis is revealing the limits of a system focused on emergency suppression instead of lasting resilience. Alexander Held, a senior expert in integrated fire management, says the European Union has improved its ability to coordinate firefighting, but still tends to act only after fires become uncontrollable. Climate change can intensify the conditions for extreme blazes, yet land abandonment, accumulated fuel, shifting farming practices and political incentives favouring visible emergency action also shape their scale and destructiveness. He argues that the central challenge is landscape governance, with prevention replacing firefighting as the main focus.

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