Crossroads 2017 - at the end of the fires - dynamics and policies
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https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_26-2_1Keywords:
Policies, dynamics, management, prevention, combat, fire,, fires, organizations, change, system, cooperation, integrationAbstract
The fire policy followed in Portugal reflects the tendency of the burned area in the last 50 years, with the increasingly devastating power of the fires, all too often associated with the loss of human life and incalculable socio-economic-environmental damage.
The 1980s saw the start of the cycle of strengthening firefighting resources to the detriment of fire prevention. The Lei de Bases da Política Florestal [Forest Policy Law] published in 1996 signalled a change in policy, but the tendency to reinforce firefighting remained.
In the emergency response to the major fires in 2003, the period from 2004 to 2008 was an experimental "bubble" of the "economy of prevention", but the weight of the civil protection reinforcement paradigm did not challenge the context of agrarian abandonment and ignored accumulation high loads of fuel in the landscape.
The fateful year of 2017 has paved the way for a new possibility to develop rural spaces harmoniously, with the intelligent integration of activities and potentialities in these areas. Government agencies must combat the tendency to repeat routines. Resistance to change is natural, but the need to change the entities responsible for the system must be taken seriously.
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