Landscape managers and planners must face new challenges related to climate change, particularly the increasing risk of forest fires. To address this situation, a practical guide has been developed to integrate fire prevention and mitigation into territorial and landscape planning.

This guide explains key concepts such as risk, vulnerability, and resilience, and provides tools that enable technicians, managers, and landowners to make more efficient and sustainable decisions. It also promotes a new way of understanding the landscape: not as a fixed reality, but as a living and evolving system, where disturbances such as fires are part of its natural dynamics.

The ultimate goal is to promote more resilient landscapes, capable of better adapting to the impacts of climate change and of protecting both the natural and human values of the territory.

In this context, agricultural activities play a key supporting role and are mentioned several times, including perennial crops and pastoralism. They are highlighted in the “good practice” examples (pp. 111–115): no. SC17 (Aldea Modelo), SC20 (Ramats de Foc), SC21 (FireWine).

Furthermore, a large majority of the good practices collected incorporate the participation of citizens and/or local communities, from both an educational perspective and a risk management standpoint.

To consult:

Moran, P., Verduci, G., Vich, A., Plana, E., Serra, M., Martí, M.,Huertas, M. (2025) "Wildfire into Landscape and Urban Planning. An Operational Guide". Fire-res project. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19110456