Fire Management Guidelines
 
 Prepared by GFMC and Partners

These Fire Management Guidelines have been prepared or published by the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and its partners:

Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa
 This is the latest GFMC publication, prepared by a consortium of 43 contributing authors. The 432-pages volume is available for a subsidized price for the African market.

Reference: Goldammer, J.G., and C.de Ronde (eds.). 2004. Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa. Global Fire Monitoring Center and Oneworldbooks, Freiburg – Cape Town, 432 p. (ISBN 1- 919833-65-X).

Book orders:  Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Subsahara Africa (PDF, 200 KB) 
                      Fax-Order Form (PDF, 120 KB) 
Online-Order: www.oneworldbooks.com

 

FAO Guidelines on Fire Management in Temperate and Boreal Forests
 Together with a team of experts working under the overall coordination of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) members from the ECE/FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire and associated experts from Canada, South Africa, Russian Federation and the United States of America contributed to the development of the guidelines.

Reference: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2002. Guidelines on Fire Management in Temperate and Boreal Forests. Forest Protection Working Papers, Working Paper FP/1/E. Forest Resources Development Service, Forest Resources Division. FAO, Rome

Online Publication: http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/programmes/un/fao/fao_4.htm

 

Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events
 At three major planning meetings the GFMC supported the WHO to prepare guidelines together with a volume with background papers and a teacher’s guide. The volumes aim at contributing to prevent and manage disasters caused by smoke from vegetation fires and to mitigate their effects on human health:

References: Schwela, D.H., J.G. Goldammer, L.H. Morawska, and O. Simpson. 1999. Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events. Guideline document. Published on behalf of UNEP, WHO, and WMO. Institute of Environmental Epidemiology, Ministry of the Environment, Singapore. Double Six Press, Singapore, 291 p.

Goh, K.T., D.H. Schwela, J.G. Goldammer, and O. Simpson. 1999. Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events. Background Papers. Published on behalf of UNEP, WHO, and WMO. Institute of Environmental Epidemiology, Ministry of the Environment, Singapore. Namic Printers, Singapore, 498 p.

Schwela, D.H., L.H. Morawska, and Abu Bakar bin Jafar. 1999. Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events. Teachers' Guide. Published on behalf of UNEP, WHO, and WMO. Institute of Environmental Epidemiology, Ministry of the Environment, Singapore. Double Six Press, Singapore, 114 p.

Online Publication: http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/programmes/un/who/who.html

 

ITTO Guidelines on Fire Management in Tropical Forests
The sixth publication in the ITTO Policy Development Series aims to provide practical assistance to member countries as they address issues and develop fire management principles to ensure the protection and sustainable management of tropical forests. The guidelines were drafted under the lead of the GFMC in 1994 and finalized by a group of experts in 1996.

Reference: International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). 1997. ITTO Guidelines on Fire Management in Tropical Forests. ITTO Policy Development Series No.6. ITTO, Yokohama, 40 p.

Online Publication: http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/programmes/itto/itto.htm

 

Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines
The UN Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines outline the Principles and Strategic Actions necessary for policy, planning and senior management decision makers to achieve more integrated and cross sectoral approaches to fire management. The guidelines have been developed in response to the outcomes of the FAO Ministerial Meeting on Forests and the 17th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry, March 2005 (Rome, Italy 2005), which called upon FAO, in collaboration with countries and other international partners, including the UNISDR, to develop a Strategy to Enhance International Cooperation in Fire Management, that advanced knowledge, increased access to information and resources and explored new approaches for cooperation at all levels. GFMC contributed with inputs from the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network.

Online publication: http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/j9255e/j9255e00.htm

Alternatively on the GFMC repository:

 

Wildland Fire Management: Handbook for Trainers
The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have supported implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Fire Management by financing review of the Handbook on Forest Fire Control, A Guide for Trainers, to incorporate the more holistic approaches. This new Handbook on Wildland Fire Management, for Trainers, will target field trainers/instructors, and thus complement the other recent Wildland Fire Management Handbooks; for Sub-Sahara Africa (2004), for North-East Asia (2006) in Russian, produced by the UNISDR and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). This handbook production was supported by GFMC.

Reference: Heikkilä, T.V., R.Grönqvist, and M. Jurvélius. 2007. Wildland Fire Management: Handbook for Trainers. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Development Policy Information Unit. Helsinki, Finland, 236 p. (ISBN-13: 978-951-724-581-4)

Online publication: Wildland Fire Management: Handbook for Trainers (PDF, 12 MB)

 

Russian Handbooks Published by Greenpeace of Russia and the Aerial Forest Fire Center of Russia Avialesookhrana
The following two publications have been prepared after the 2010 fire season. The first publication by Greenpeace includes recommendations for organizing volunteer fire brigades, how to use and observe regulations, and information on fire centers and other services.

Another Handbook for Volunteers Fire Brigades has been developed jointly by Greenpeace of Russia and the Aerial Forest Fire Center Avialesookhrana of the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia. This handbook consists information about forest fires, rules and regulations, fire fighting tactics and methods, equipment, firefighter safety, etc. A special chapter is on first medical care.

 

Manual for the Control of Fire in Peatlands and Peatland Forest
This Manual for the Control of Fire in Peatland and Peatland Forest contains information on: (1) fire control, (2) factors which support fire, (3) government policy on fire control, and (4) strategies and techniques for the control of land and forest fires in peatland areas. The information presented in this book, besides including a variety of concepts and practical measures for the prevention and suppression of fire already written/presented by others, also contains ideas and recent field experience of the writers in the handling of land and forest fires in peatland areas of Kalimantan and Sumatera. The writing of this book has been funded by CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) through the CCFPI project (Climate Change, Forests and Peatlands in Indonesia), and is produced by Wetlands International - Indonesia Programme in cooperation with Wildlife Habitat Canada.

Reference: Adinugroho W.C., I Nyoman N. Suryadiputra, Bambang H. Saharjo, and Labueni Siboro. 2005. Manual for the Control of Fire in Peatlands and Peatland Forest. Climate Change, Forests and Peatlands in Indonesia Project. Wetlands International – Indonesia Programme and Wildlife Habitat Canada. Bogor, Indonesia, 162 p. ISBN: 979-99373-7-X (© Wetlands International - Indonesia Programme).

 

Manejo del Fuego (in Spanish, by Marcos Pedro Ramos Rodríguez, Universidad de Pinar del Río, Cuba, 2010)
Este libro contiene información sobre: (1)Fuego y medio ambiente (2)Comportamiento del fuego (3)Protección contra incendios forestales (4)Evaluación de los efectos provocados los incedios forestales, sumarizando de forma detallada las técnicas y habilidades tanto para el manejo del fuego como para el combate de incendios forestales en general.

 

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