Integrated Risk Management in Forests: The FORRISK Project Experience

This paper defines integrated risk management in forests as a multi-scale approach combining prevention and control, silvicultural practices, ecological and economic constraints, multiple hazard management, and institutional and legal frameworks. Within the Interreg SUDOE FORRISK project (2012–2014), partners studied these parameters in southwestern Europe and produced tools such as risk maps, silvicultural guidelines, risk models, hazard analyses, and comparative assessments of management tools. Case studies address biotic threats like Gonipterus platensis on eucalyptus, Fusarium circinatum on Pinus radiata, and pine processionary moth, as well as abiotic risks including wildfires and storms in Spain, Aquitaine, and Euskadi.