EU Support to Flood Prevention and Forest Fires Risk Managemen in the Western Balkans and Turkey – European Civil Protection, Funded by the European Union

EU Support to Flood Prevention and Forest Fires Risk Managemen in the Western Balkans and Turkey – European Civil Protection, Funded by the European Union

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On 3 December, IPA FF experts held a technical meeting in Belgrade, hosted by the Ministry of Interior (Sector for Emergency Management, SEM), for the initial phase of the assessment of forest fire risk management capabilities in Serbia.Different departments of SEM participated at the meeting, Department for Legal Affairs and International Cooperation, Department for Fire and Rescue Units and Civil Protection, Department for Risk Management. Beyond SEM, the meeting engaged a broad range of stakeholders including representatives from user/owners of forests (i.e. State Enterprises „Srbijašume“ and „Vojvodinašume“), Department for Risk Management of Faculty of Security Studies (University of Belgrade), Scientific Professional Society for Disaster Risk Management (NSD-URVS), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management.
The aim of this participatory meeting was to better depict the institutional and legal framework fitting the adoption of fire risk mapping for prevention and response. The meeting offered the occasion to exchange experiences on methodologies for forest fire risk assessment at national and local level. The meeting showed there is large necessity of collaboration across departments and sectors in order to facilitate the adoption of forest fire risk assessment procedures and tools in Serbia.
It also helped to identify critical issues and challenges for improving the efficiency of forest fire risk mapping in Serbia. It emerged large interest from all institutions to improve their capacities towards the adoption of fire risk mapping and the benefit that this can generate for the society.The meeting is part of the IPAFF project which aims to improve floods and forest fires risk management capacities in the Balkans (Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Turkey.
The Serbian partners and the IPAFF project partners will meet again in the coming months to advance technical guidelines for forest fire risk management at different governmental levels.Technical meeting for the assessments of risk mapping capabilities for forest fires, Belgrade: 3 December, SEM Mol RS.

Vladimir Cvetkovic

Prof. dr Vladimir M. Cvetković je zaposlen na Univerziteta u Beogradu, Fakultetu bezbednosti i realizuje nastavu na predmetima: Upravlјanje rizicima u vanrednim situacijama, Zaštita od prirodnih i antropogenih katastrofa, Bezbednosni rizici i katastrofe, Metodologija procene rizika od katastrofa, Rukovodjenje u vanrednim situacijama, Smanjenje rizika od katastrofa. Više od 15 godina se bavi istraživanjem u oblasti studija katastrofa. Objavio je preko 250 naučnih radova i 20 knjiga iz oblasti studija katastrofa. Predsednik je i osnivač Naučnog stručnog društva za upravlјanje rizicima u vanrednim situacijama, Međunarodnog instituta za istraživanje katastrofa i glavni urednik Međunarodnog časopisa za upravlјanje rizicima od katastrofa (International Institute for Disaster Research). Dobitnik je brojnih nagrada od čega je najznačajnija nagrada za najboljeg mladog naučnika Srbije ,,Danubius Young Scientist Award 2017“ koja se dodeljuje od strane Austrijskog ministarstva za nauku, istraživanje i ekonomiju (BMWFW) i Instituta za Dunavski region i Centralnu Evropu (IDM) za izuzetna dostignuća u nauci. Više o njegovoj biografiji možete pogledati na sledećoj adresi - https://vladimircvetkovic.upravljanje-rizicima.edu.rs/.