“Aboriginal” methods help to fight fires
Project ‘Firees’ – Fire LandscapesInvestigating the history of rural fires discussed in Lisbon, it was concluded that fire methods were left, as they were considered “primitive”, but some help to fight for forest fires.
“In the sarcasm of the destination, the restoration of the ‘harmful traditions’ of the fire such as controlled fire and counterfag is now a way to make this burning tangle, says the Institute of Contemporary History researcher An Isabel Quiroz. New University of LisbonCited in a note about the project.
The main results were at the international conference: “Firelandskops: A Political and Environmental History of the Great Files in Portugal”, at the National Library of Lisbon, researchers and Galisia, Tunisia, Tunisia, Brazil and United Kingdom.
“The fires have become most common”
Researchers from Nova de Lisbova, Koimbra and Porto and in 2 past Laboratory universities assessed the origin and development of great fires throughout the twentieth century, evaluating the rural transformation between the political and scientific lecture and the forest fire in the 1950-1980.
These two different firefighters were analyzed in two mountainous places, Serono Planeto between Lapa and Nav, in the Vyas district and in the south.
In general terms of this project, “excluding fire methods, by increasing scientific consensus, denies that cereal crops are ‘primitive’ through fire and the source of environmental imbalance” which appears to be the “enemy” of the forest.
However, the team found that efforts to limit the fire have failed and “rural fires have been destroyed from the 1960s, general and destructive, more burning territory.”
Changes created “burning landscape”
At Mopa and Nav, Moina showed that the municipalities of Da Beira and Sernanceelhey, as well as the Southern research in the Serra de Monchic in the Pharaoh district, showed that “most of the twentieth century there were no big fires” and the disasters associated with the fire were “in line with the contraction of Eras.”
In the downtown area, Bravo Dose Callos Pine was flowering in the early 1960s and the first large fires occur in the next decade, “After April 25, the pine fees planted are returned to the local groups and are ready for the first cut.”
In Monchic, a rural landscape, which was carried out around the widespread firefighters, was moved from the rural -based economy for the Eucalyptus -centered economy in the 1960s, which regularly travels a wild and industrial landscape through the 1960s. “
In the early 1960s, the large -scale rural exodus gradually reduced the cultivation of grain and, therefore, the use of fire “,” and created a more combustible landscape due to natural vegetation growth and forest bases on left.
The Firees team pointed out that “the exception of Monchik firefighters is a joint result of agricultural transformation and a new forest fire prevention model for protecting new eucalyptus forests.”
Have you returned to the past?
This investigation, from over 60 interviews, has allowed to find out agricultural practices and rural experiences in four decades, and “with some surprise, Serra de Monchic and Lapa and Nav Sauses, in 1950 and 1960, were found with large concerts of fireworks in 1950 and 1960.
Researchers found that “they are not the remains of ancestral methods, but the farm systems are maintained around the fire and that new techniques and various innovations have developed in the first part of the twentieth century.”
In the constitution and the first Republic monarchy, the rural fires in the rural fires are compared to urban fires, but the situation in the Estado Novo (1933) and the forest solution plan (1933), “the use of fire becomes a threat to new forests.
In the first phase, by the end of the 1950s, there are indications of the burning and “fireworks” that threaten flowering plans, but there is a serious change in the early 1960s, and “firing” a “national emergency” rather than a certain threat to the state planted in Parliament.
Increasing limitations on fire use in rural areas “At the end of the nineteenth century, in the framework of political liberalism, and their expansion during the Estado Novo”, the emergence of clerk flowering projects.
“In this case, the fire methods associated with mountainous farm systems are considered to be the oldest ancient of the earth, the environment, and most importantly,”.
But the praise of the fire controlled in a technical-scientific lecture arises in the 1970s, with the emergence of large fires in various mountainous places, and the rebuilding of agricultural and environmental knowledge carved in various mountainous places, and the technical use of the international scientific context of agricultural knowledge and international scientific context. “
Foundation for Science and Technology funded the ‘Fires’ Project, Moina Da Beira, Sernanceelhe, Vila Nova de Paiva, Monchik and Silves and Municipalities of the High Institute of Agriculture, have also joined eight researchers from history, social and anthropology.
