Nikos Chrisogelos - Part 2 - The Greens
Nikos Chrisogelos - Part 2 - The Greens
Nikos Chrisogelos - Part 2 - The Greens
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Why was the damage so extensive?<br />
• Unusual extreme weather/climate conditions (3 heat waves X 3 days<br />
each one)<br />
• Ignorance of the new conditions because of climate crisis<br />
• Inadequate sustainable forest management and protection<br />
• Lack of co-ordination between different authorities<br />
• Absence of prevention policy (eg for management of forest residues)<br />
• Wrong strategy: Focus on extinguishing the fires from air by helicopter<br />
and airplanes<br />
• In some cases, arson due to private interests extrapolated the number<br />
and the extent of the forest fires<br />
• Lack of a proper involvement of local people in sustainable forest<br />
management, in fire prevention and in early extinguishment of fires<br />
• Villages with only older people, lack of young people<br />
5-7 fires from a total number of 12.000 fire cases burned 200.000 ha<br />
<strong>Nikos</strong> Chrysogelos Greek GREEN ECOLOGISTS conference GGEP 12/11/2008
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