Pau Costa Foundation engagement in research
Session: Research/Practitioner networking initiatives and future steps
Presenter: Núria Prat-Guitart (Pau Costa Foundation)
Contact email: N. Prat: nprat@paucostafoundation.org
The Pau Costa Foundation (PCF) serves as a coordination platform and contact point for exchanging knowledge on fire ecology and wildfire and crisis management. It works for and with the fire community to collect recommendations on crisis management, lessons learned and experiences and make them accessible to help develop efficient, effective and useful projects and services that contribute to improve the knowledge on wildfire and crisis management.
PCF is a leading organisation advocating a profound change in the concept of fire prevention towards a concept of fire resilient landscapes that will help mitigating climate change impacts. For this, PCF focuses on fire operations, support to applied research, promoting landscape management (planning and certification).
All actions are done under an effective dissemination strategy that helps transferring the expertise and knowledge to the interested actors. For this purpose, the foundation develops a large range of actions from local to international scales to bridge de gap between the fire community, research and society.
Link: www.paucostafoundation.org
ABSTRACT: Pau Costa Foundation (PCF) works for the wildfire community, connecting first responders, landscape managers, society, research, public and private sector and policy makers. These actors face challenges and they are looking for short term solutions. Actually, PCF represents a global fire community that is demanding collaboration to (1) better understand the current trends in wildfire behaviour and future changes in the context of climate change and (2) find applicable solutions that can help dealing with the different phases of disaster management, from prevention to response and recovery.
From now on, PCF plans to get a more efficient involvement in in research. The idea is to reinforce collaborations between communities, practitioners or end-users and researchers to set the basis for discussion with all the key actors about potential solutions. To that aim, PCF will propose tools and communication means to create knowledge and promote applied science. PCF will also encourage research initiatives that are driven by the land users and fire practitioners’ communities and that integrate transdisciplinary approaches.
