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The aim of the project was to deliver evidence-based recommendations for ensuring forest fire protection and fire-fighting functions in public and private forests in Latvia and also ensuring the fulfilment of the State Civil Protection Plan and civil protection tasks. The project's focus was on obtaining research information on the current situation in the field of forest fire protection and firefighting in public and private forests, on the necessary investments to improve the material and technical base, including financial impact on the state budget and to find possible solution for ensuring qualitative function provision.
The project carried out an analysis of the existing situation, including an evaluation of material and technical provisions, financial resources and human resources in the field of fire protection and fire-fighting of public and private forests and bogs. It also analysed good practices abroad (Estonia, Sweden, Poland and Germany) in order to find the economically most justified, socially and ecologically responsible and most efficient long-term solution in the country for forest fire protection and fire-fighting in the public and private forest defence contexture and civil protection.
Based on the comparative assessment of the scenarios, including the impact of the solutions on the provision of functions, the necessary costs and complexity of implementation, the firefighting and management capacity in the SFRS and SFS was chosen as the most optimal scenario. The scenario takes into account the future challenge and potential climate changes, predicting the development of wildfire, including forest fire, protection and firefighting functions and the continuation of the initiated changes. The scenario strengthens the capacity of the SFRS and the SFS in extinguishing wildfires, assuming that the activities of the forest fire protection and firefighting function are carried out by professionals in the field who are able to ensure the performance of the function as efficiently as possible and, if necessary, adapt to the risks caused by climate change.
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