Water Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Wageningen University and Research, PO box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Ambio. 2024 Oct;53(10):1433-1453. doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-02030-7. Epub 2024 May 25.
Living with wildfires in an era of climate change requires adaptation and weaving together many forms of knowledge. Empirical evidence of knowledge co-production in wildfire management is lacking in Mediterranean European areas. We explored how local ecological knowledge can be leveraged to reduce wildfire risk through an adaptation pathways process in the Montseny massif and wider Tordera River watershed of Catalonia, Spain: an area stewarded through forestry and agriculture, tourism, nature conservation, and fire management. We combined different methods (e.g., a timeline and Three Horizons framework) throughout three workshops with agents of change to co-create adaptation pathways to reduce wildfire risk, integrating a historical perspective of the landscape while envisioning desirable futures. Our results showed that local ecological knowledge and other soft adaptation strategies contribute to innovative sustainable development initiatives that can also mitigate wildfire risk. The adaptation pathways approach holds much potential to inform local policies and support wildfire-based community initiatives in diverse contexts.
在气候变化的时代，与野火共存需要适应和融合多种形式的知识。在欧洲地中海地区，野火管理中知识共同生产的经验证据还很缺乏。我们通过在西班牙加泰罗尼亚的蒙塞尼山脉和更广泛的托尔达雷流域的适应途径过程，探讨了如何利用当地生态知识来降低野火风险：该地区通过林业和农业、旅游业、自然保护和火灾管理来管理。我们在三个与变革推动者共同开展的工作坊中结合了不同的方法（例如时间线和三视野框架），以共同创造降低野火风险的适应途径，同时将景观的历史视角与理想的未来相结合。我们的结果表明，当地生态知识和其他软适应策略有助于创新的可持续发展举措，也可以降低野火风险。适应途径方法具有很大的潜力，可以为不同背景下的地方政策提供信息，并支持基于野火的社区倡议。
