1 JUN 2025 - 14:01 CET

The research group has launched a new National Research Project titled "The Pyrogeography of Navarra: from cultural burning to catastrophic wildfires". 

Pyrogeography is the holistic and interdisciplinary study of the spatiotemporal distribution of wildfires and human alteration of the natural fire regime. There is currently significant concern about the impact and consequences of wildfires due to climate change, which has led to convective fire behaviour, posing new challenges to the civil protection system. The PYROLANDSCAPE project addresses this challenge in Navarra, a particularly critical region due to its geographical position and ecological and cultural characteristics. Its main innovations include (a) the introduction of a historical perspective to understand and manage current wildfire risk in the context of climate change, (b) the comparative assessment of the effects of landscape change and climate change on fire regime change, and (c) the recovery and adaptation of the fire culture to the new socio-spatial and climatic context to reduce population and heritages vulnerability to catastrophic fires.
The overall objective of the project is to connect the past, present, and future of the fire regime, in its interaction with landscape change and climate change. From an applied perspective, the general aim of the project is geared towards strengthening social resilience to the risk of forest fires in the region of Navarra.