GFMC: Fire Management Glossaries

FAO / GFMC Wildland Fire Management Terminology

In 1999 the Global Fire Monitoring Center was entrusted by the FAO to develop an update of the 1986 version of the FAO Wildland Fire Management Terminology. The revised version with English definitions and partial translation to French, Spanish, and German (see: editorial remarks) is now available (December 2003):

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New: Russian and Mongolian added

As a follow-up of the First International Central Asian Wildland Fire Joint Conference and Consultation “Wildland Fires in Natural Ecosystems of the Central Asian Region: Ecology and Management Implications” (2-6 June 2008, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), and at the occasion of the International Conference on Cross-Border Fires (16-18 June 2010, Irkutsk, Russian Federation) the GFMC launched the first version of the English - Russian - Mongolian - German glossary. The glossary was updated / corrected in early 2011:

Other Online Fire Terminologies

FireWords (by Systems for Environmental Management and Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory)
http://www.firewords.net/

U.S. Forest Service Online Fire Management Glossary:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/nfp/glossary.htm

Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology (US National Wildfire Coordination Group, Incident Operations Standards Working Team, published in 1996 and 2006):

Australasian Fire Authorities Council (AFAC) Updated Wildfire Glossary (2009):

Tall Timbers Research Station (Florida, USA) offers the E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database which contains the E. V. Komarek Fire Ecology Thesaurus:
http://www.talltimbers.org/fedb-thesaurus.html

The Forest Fire Control Division, Department for National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conversation, Thailand, provides a Thai-English Wildland Fire Terminology:
http://www.dnp.go.th/forestfire/FIRESCIENCE/scince.htm

The German Fire Protection Association (GFPA) has produced a trilingual (German, English, French) web-based fire protection terminology:
http://www.vfdb.de/index.php?content=ctiflexikon

 

Other online forestry and environmental glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedias

Terminology Collection - Word Online „Forestry“ – an excellent related terminology:
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/collect/special/forestry.html

University of Wuerzburg website with links to important related environmental glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedias:
http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/palbot/glossaries/environment.html

 

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