COORDINATION: Joaquim Sande Silva (CEABN).
CEABN TEAM: Filipe Catry, Francisco Moreira, Joaquim Sande Silva, Maria João Maia e Rui Morgado.
OTHER INSTITUTIONS: Universidade de Aveiro e Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade de Aveiro, Unité de Recherches Forestières Méditerranéennes, Equipe de Prévention des, Incendies de Foret (Institut National de la Recherce Agronomique), Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo (CEAM), CEMAGREF, Association Internationale Foret Méditerranéennes (AIFM), University of Thessaloniki, Università di Napoli Federico II (UNINA), University of Tuscia, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
The main objective of the Project Centre was to develop decision criteria for preventive post-fire forest management. PHOENIX had the following specific objectives:
• to develop a sound database gathering state-of-the-art existing scientific knowledge concerning the fire characteristics of the different forest types and respective species;
• to develop a set of criteria which can be used to classify forest types in terms of the associated fire hazard and resilience;
• to define the potential and limitation of the various post-fire management options;
• to help developing the transfer mechanisms needed between research and its application by end-users in this specific issue.
