How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?

© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Girona-García, Antonio, Cretella, Carola, Fernández, Cristina, Robichaud, Peter R., Vieira, Diana C. S., Keizer, Jan Jacob
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/295387
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/295387
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Ecosystem services
Erosion mitigation
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Post-fire management
Mulching
id ES_f8e39bceae00367a06998565b47fc009
oai_identifier_str oai:digital.csic.es:10261/295387
network_acronym_str ES
network_name_str España
repository_id_str
spelling How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?Girona-García, AntonioCretella, CarolaFernández, CristinaRobichaud, Peter R.Vieira, Diana C. S.Keizer, Jan JacobEcosystem servicesErosion mitigationCost-effectiveness analysisPost-fire managementMulching© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating such responses, especially at the slope scale, but there is a knowledge gap as to how cost-effective these treatments are. In this work, we review the effectiveness of post-fire soil erosion mitigation treatments at reducing erosion rates over the first post-fire year and provide their application costs. This allowed assessing the treatments’ cost-effectiveness (CE), expressed as the cost of preventing 1 Mg of soil loss. This assessment involved a total of 63 field study cases, extracted from 26 publications from the USA, Spain, Portugal, and Canada, and focused on the role of treatment types and materials, and countries. Treatments providing a protective ground cover showed the best median CE (895 $ Mg−1), especially agricultural straw mulch (309 $ Mg−1), followed by wood-residue mulch (940 $ Mg−1) and hydromulch (2332 $ Mg−1). Barriers showed a relatively low CE (1386 $ Mg−1), due to their reduced effectiveness and elevated implementation costs. Seeding showed a good CE (260 $ Mg−1), but this reflected its low costs rather than its effectiveness to reduce soil erosion. The present results confirmed that post-fire soil erosion mitigation treatments are cost-effective as long as they are applied in areas where the post-fire erosion rates exceed the tolerable erosion rate thresholds (>1 Mg−1 ha−1 y−1) and are less costly than the loss of on- and off-site values that they are targeted to protect. For this reason, the proper assessment of post-fire soil erosion risk is vital to ensure that the available financial, human and material resources are applied appropriately.Antonio Girona-García is recipient of the Grant RYC2021-031262-I funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR; and was also funded by the Spanish Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) through project 20208AT007. This work was supported by the FEMME project (PCIF/MPG/0019/2017) funded by FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; and by the project EPyRIS (SOE2/P5/E0811), funded by the European Union through the SUDOE and Program. Thanks are also due for the financial support from FCT/MCTES, through FEDER funds in the framework of the Operational Program Competitiveness Factors—COMPETE and national funds attributed to GeoBioTec (UIDB/04035/2020).Peer reviewedElsevierMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)European CommissionConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (Portugal)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcPublisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/295387reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//RYC-2021-031262-Ihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117478Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2953872026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
title How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
spellingShingle How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
Girona-García, Antonio
Ecosystem services
Erosion mitigation
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Post-fire management
Mulching
title_short How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
title_full How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
title_fullStr How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
title_full_unstemmed How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
title_sort How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Girona-García, Antonio
Cretella, Carola
Fernández, Cristina
Robichaud, Peter R.
Vieira, Diana C. S.
Keizer, Jan Jacob
author Girona-García, Antonio
author_facet Girona-García, Antonio
Cretella, Carola
Fernández, Cristina
Robichaud, Peter R.
Vieira, Diana C. S.
Keizer, Jan Jacob
author_role author
author2 Cretella, Carola
Fernández, Cristina
Robichaud, Peter R.
Vieira, Diana C. S.
Keizer, Jan Jacob
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
European Commission
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (Portugal)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ecosystem services
Erosion mitigation
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Post-fire management
Mulching
topic Ecosystem services
Erosion mitigation
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Post-fire management
Mulching
description © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
publishDate 2023
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2023
2023
2023
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/article
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bc
Publisher's version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
format article
status_str publishedVersion
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv http://hdl.handle.net/10261/295387
url http://hdl.handle.net/10261/295387
dc.language.none.fl_str_mv Inglés
language_invalid_str_mv Inglés
dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//RYC-2021-031262-I
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117478
Sí
dc.rights.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
eu_rights_str_mv openAccess
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv application/pdf
dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv Elsevier
publisher.none.fl_str_mv Elsevier
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
instname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
instname_str Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
reponame_str DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
collection DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
repository.name.fl_str_mv
repository.mail.fl_str_mv
_version_ 1869425043722731520
score 15,228081

Registos relacionados