2024
Strategic planning of structural preventive interventions for wildfires.
Name: Strategic planning of structural preventive interventions for wildfires.
Code: PAO15339O
2 ECTS
Duration: 2 weeks/52 hours
Scientific Area:
Forest Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Understand the uses of fire, its impacts, and management.
Learn techniques for managing fuels, species reactions, and their effects on fire behavior and wildfire protection.
Know the principles for effective structural prevention interventions.
Estimate vegetation recovery rates and their relevance to prevention.
Consider the costs of fuel management techniques.
Analyze fire history and identify preventive interventions for mitigation.
Size and schedule interventions based on vegetation, topography, and impact on fire behavior.
Identify fuel management techniques, maintenance intervals, and costs.
Plan and implement primary and secondary networks, and fuel management mosaics, maximizing their effectiveness in supporting rural fire protection.
Evaluate interventions in reducing fire spread and improving passive and active suppression.
Learn techniques for managing fuels, species reactions, and their effects on fire behavior and wildfire protection.
Know the principles for effective structural prevention interventions.
Estimate vegetation recovery rates and their relevance to prevention.
Consider the costs of fuel management techniques.
Analyze fire history and identify preventive interventions for mitigation.
Size and schedule interventions based on vegetation, topography, and impact on fire behavior.
Identify fuel management techniques, maintenance intervals, and costs.
Plan and implement primary and secondary networks, and fuel management mosaics, maximizing their effectiveness in supporting rural fire protection.
Evaluate interventions in reducing fire spread and improving passive and active suppression.
Contents
Potential of prevention in relation to fire causes and specifically to the use of fire.
Structural prevention interventions, strategies, and the need for integration with suppression and wildfire protection.
Different techniques of structural prevention, their effectiveness in altering fire behavior, potential, limitations, costs, and complementarities.
Basic principles of strategic planning.
Fire history, topography, land use and occupation, meteorology, use for suppression, direct and indirect costs, and their relationship with productivity.
Dimensioning and scheduling of structural prevention interventions based on the need to alter fire behavior to create suppression opportunities and improve protection.
Evaluation of the use of structural prevention interventions in suppression and protection operations, their effectiveness and efficiency, and identification of needs and opportunities for improvement.
Structural prevention interventions, strategies, and the need for integration with suppression and wildfire protection.
Different techniques of structural prevention, their effectiveness in altering fire behavior, potential, limitations, costs, and complementarities.
Basic principles of strategic planning.
Fire history, topography, land use and occupation, meteorology, use for suppression, direct and indirect costs, and their relationship with productivity.
Dimensioning and scheduling of structural prevention interventions based on the need to alter fire behavior to create suppression opportunities and improve protection.
Evaluation of the use of structural prevention interventions in suppression and protection operations, their effectiveness and efficiency, and identification of needs and opportunities for improvement.
Teaching Methods
The teaching-learning methodology should adopt a problem-based approach, focusing on practical cases and/or critical situations to ensure learner engagement and closeness to real-life scenarios. It should foster connections between distinct topics and facilitate the evaluation of complex scenarios?essential skills for the integrated rural fire management system. Collaborative learning should be promoted, allowing participants to develop complementary teamwork skills as well as the ability to self-evaluate, evaluate others, and engage in peer assessment.
An autonomous study component should be included, culminating in an individual practical project. The topic of this final project will be chosen by the participant from the subjects covered during the course.
An autonomous study component should be included, culminating in an individual practical project. The topic of this final project will be chosen by the participant from the subjects covered during the course.
Assessment
Evaluation methods:
Execution of training exercises during classes integrated in a final practical project, that correspond to 100% of the classification.
Evaluation criteria:
Relates fire causes with priorities and types of interventions for prevention.
Masters the basic principles for the effectiveness of structural prevention actions.
Masters different fuel management techniques, their costs and impacts, and their effects on rural fire protection.
Identifies and schedules interventions and fuel management techniques in strategic locations.
Analyzes fire history and evaluates the potential impact of preventive interventions on changes in fire patterns.
Has the capability to locate and size primary networks, fuel management mosaics, and other interventions, selecting the most efficient intervention techniques.
Evaluates the effectiveness of structural prevention actions and identifies correction needs.
Execution of training exercises during classes integrated in a final practical project, that correspond to 100% of the classification.
Evaluation criteria:
Relates fire causes with priorities and types of interventions for prevention.
Masters the basic principles for the effectiveness of structural prevention actions.
Masters different fuel management techniques, their costs and impacts, and their effects on rural fire protection.
Identifies and schedules interventions and fuel management techniques in strategic locations.
Analyzes fire history and evaluates the potential impact of preventive interventions on changes in fire patterns.
Has the capability to locate and size primary networks, fuel management mosaics, and other interventions, selecting the most efficient intervention techniques.
Evaluates the effectiveness of structural prevention actions and identifies correction needs.
Teaching Staff
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