Workshop "Wildfire Management and Governance"

O INESC TEC recebe o perito canadiano Kelvin Hirsch que ministrará um workshop com o tema “Wildfire Management and Governance”. O workshop decorre no âmbito das atividades de lançamento do Laboratório Colaborativo ForestWISE, sendo promovido pela Estrutura de Missão para a Instalação do Sistema de Gestão Integrada de Fogos Rurais, com o apoio da Embaixada do Canadá e do INESC TEC.

A sessão será realizada em Inglês.

Sobre Kelvin Hirsch

•  Leadership of about 35 scientific and technical staff in the Northern Forestry Centre’s Climate Change Research Program, which includes both carbon science and accounting as well as impacts and adaptation research.
• CFS Climate Change Adaptation Project Coordinator in conjunction with directors at all centres and branches to provide collective leadership in planning and priorities setting for all CFS activities in the field of climate
  change impacts and adaptation.
• Leader of the Technical Advisory Group of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers Climate Change Task Force undertaking a major  vulnerability and adaptation assessment of sustainable forest management in Canada
  under a changing climate.
• Member of the NRCan Horizontal Task Team on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
• Past involvement in forest fire research, creation of Canada’s FireSmart program, and development of the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy.

Wildfire Management and Governance
The workshop will focus on critical strategic concerns in wildfire management and governance, building on the Canadian situation and approach. The discussion will cover broadly the Canadian Fire Management Policies and Institutions, and focus on some of its key components, such as the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy and the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.