Task 2.4

Subtask 2.4.1

Landscape design strategies, using tactical planning methods (CTFC). It will couple fire simulation systems together with forest growth and yield simulators, and optimization techniques, to assess tactical landscape-level forest management plans (IA 2.7). The emphasis is on the minimization of expected losses from EWE over tactical planning horizons an on the development of prevention plans that may become financially viable over time due to the related value chains based on resulting provisioning ecosystem services.

Subtask 2.4.2

Trade-off ES assessment of fire-resilient landscape design (ISA). It targets the development of novel regulatory ecosystem services frameworks and its integration in fire and forest management planning (IA 2.8). It will innovate tools to develop the analysis (e.g. mathematical programming and heuristic techniques, Pareto Frontier methods, web-based platforms) of tradeoffs between EWE regulatory ecosystem services (e.g. using wildfire resistance indicators) and other ecosystem services (e.g. CO2 storage/emissions saving, effects in biodiversity) over tactical planning horizons. The emphasis is on disclosing the bundles of ES that become affected (positively or negatively) by the design of pre-fire (prevention and preparedness) and post-fire (adaptation and restoration) landscapes that are less prone to the occurrence of EWE and that can facilitate the response in case an EWE does occur. Specifically, it will use management planning methods to assess the impacts of prevention and preparedness options (e.g. alternative fuel management schedules) and adaptation and restoration options (e.g. species conversion) on the provision of ecosystem services over tactical planning horizons.