FUEL-SAT PROJECT
Stakeholder Engagement
The project will tackle one of the most important research and information gaps in wildfire management, by contributing to a better and more systematic characterization of fuels in the landscape.
Thus, it will contribute to support an important step towards the development of an operational data-based wildfire fuel management tool with the aim of reducing the occurrence of large wildfires in Portugal.
To effectively accomplish this ambition, the engagement of the key stakeholders since the beginning of the project is determinant for the smooth implementation of the final outcomes into practice. Therefore, the project entails a step by step multi-stakeholder approach from the start to the end of the project.
The project already integrates three key stakeholders from the forestry sector with relevant forest and wildfire management experience: NAVIGATOR, ALTRI and AFOCELCA.
Nonetheless, an important part of the key stakeholders and institutions have already been identified since the research team have a long history of collaboration and partnership with them (e.g. Public administration and technical staff of the forestry and nature conservation institute (ICNF), municipal forestry offices, Agency for the integrated management of rural fires (AGIF).