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- Title
The economic value of fire damages in Tuscan agroforestry areas.
- Authors
Fagarazzi, Claudio; Fratini, Roberto; Montanino, Mara; Viccaro, Mauro; Cozzi, Mario; Romano, Severino; Riccioli, Francesco
- Abstract
The Tuscan Region (Central Italy) spends about 12 million euros every year in the prevention and suppression of forest fires. In this context, this study aims to analyse the economic and environmental benefits derived from fire suppression activities. Starting from a case study of a real fire event in Tuscany, we simulated three hypothetical scenarios (with different fire durations) without fire extinction activities planned by using the open source software FARSITE. Benefits derived from fire extinction activities can be quantified as the avoided damage, which has been calculated through the estimation of the total economic value of forests not destroyed by fire thanks to the extinction action. The avoided damage is represented by the difference between values of forest areas burned by the real fire event and those burned by simulated fire. By providing an economic estimation of avoided damages, our results confirm that forest fire services and forest management have a high impact on both the economy and the environment.
- Subjects
TUSCANY (Italy); FOREST fire prevention &; control; FIREFIGHTING; FIRE management; FOREST fire management; AGROFORESTRY; OPEN source software; FOREST fires
- Publication
iForest - Biogeosciences & Forestry, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1971-7458
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3832/ifor3607-013