Report on operational recommendations to enhance communities and municipalities involvement in wildfire risk management through communication actions (D12)

The aim of this document is to establish common recommendations in wildfire risk management through communication actions applicable in the eFIRECOM consortium countries. These common recommendations help to enhance resilience in communities and municipalities.
The approach of this report is divided in three different levels or scales: plot, settlement and massif.
After giving general recommendations in pre-crisis phase of wildfire risk communication applicable in all kind of communication actions, it is exposed in two steps how it’s possible to improve the citizens’ participation in risk management through the communication: (1) Through inform the public, and (2) Promote actions. In order to inform the public, it is important to understand and raise awareness through giving information related forest fires prevention. For promote actions it is recommended to promote responsible consumption of certain products, in the individual and collective way.
Then, on one hand are exposed general recommendations intended to homeowners for the plot level, such as maintaining an adequate defensible space and, by toughening your home by using fire resistant building materials. In order to understand these risk recommendations, it is important transfer knowledge related heat transfer and fire behavior.
On the other hand, intended to local entities and municipalities, are exposed general recommendations addressed to increase the wildfire resilience in settlements and in massifs. In the massif level it’s introduced the Fire types concept.