Alexander Held
Coverage of Alexander Held in the Nexus archive.
- Wildfire prevention requires 'nature-based solutions': Land 'treating us' the way we treat the land
Alexander Held, Senior Expert of the Resilience Programme for Integrated Fire Management, argues that Europe's wildfire crisis highlights the limitations of emergency suppression-focused approaches. He emphasizes the need to shift from reactive firefighting to long-term landscape governance, noting that factors like land abandonment and political incentives for visible emergency responses exacerbate wildfire risks.
- France, Spain wildfires: Climate change increasing frequency, intensity of extreme weather events
Wildfires in southwest France around Bordeaux and central Spain near Madrid are among the worst in decades, fueled by climate change-induced heatwaves and drought. The fires have released significant CO2 and left land blackened, prompting discussions on post-fire recovery with insights from Alexander Held of the European Forest Institute.