Interventions to manage and reduce fire risk in the habitat-natural area interface

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INTERMED addresses the risk of fire in the areas of interface between expanding urban centres and the outdoors, also due to rural abandonment. These interface areas represent high safety hazards for people, goods, biodiversity, land use and sustainable development. These interface areas present high safety hazards for people, goods, biodiversity, land use and sustainable development. The main purpose of INTERMED is to identify effective ways to reduce the vulnerability of these areas. For this purpose, the project has three parts: the identification and mapping of the fire risk for the interface areas, the vulnerability of buildings close to vegetation, pilot actions to reduce the vulnerability of interface areas. This project is supported by Partners from across the cooperation area and will share the state-of-the-art legally, compare the effectiveness of the various actions and define the most effective methods to be adopted throughout the cooperation area. The INTERMED project will implement the following: High-resolution mapping of the fire risk interface areas, recommendations for the implementation of regulatory building landscape measures, integration of risk assessment tools in the REMOcRA platform, risk reduction and self-protection standards and setup of the signs for evacuation routes and assembly areas. These results will benefit the authorities in charge of fire risk prevention and the residents and visitors of the areas affected by the pilot actions.

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