Building and strengthening green DRR infrastructure at landscape level: holistic and inclusive approaches in landscape fire management

The disappearance of traditional land use that involves intensive utilization of vegetation has resulted in increasing the flammability of natural, cultural and peri-urban / industrial landscapes. This presentation suggests we revert to sustainable land-use practices, revitalize abandoned landscapes and their potential to serve as a sustainable source for the production of food and renewable energy and ‘green jobs’ as key elements of a ‘Green Economy’. Intensively managed cultural and natural landscapes would provide ‘Green Infrastructure’, reduce wildfire threat and post-wildfire secondary disasters.