Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues

Dr. Jesús Rodrigo Comino, a graduate in Geography, currently works as an assistant professor at the University of Granada and was recently included in the World's Top 2% Scientists ranking by Stanford University. He did a thesis with an extraordinary degree award with the work: “The soils of the province of Malaga: Review according to the classification criteria of FAO-WRB (2006)”. He has a master’s in Territorial Planning and Geographic Information Systems (2013) from the University of Granada, whose final work was divided into 3 national publications and a monograph. During his predoc stage, he obtained three scholarships for doctoral studies: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), La Caixa Foundation and FPU (Ministry of Education, Spain). During this period, he completed his doctoral thesis between the University of Trier, Germany (2 years), and Malaga (2 years) and Doctorate in Geography (2018) from the University of Malaga with a doctoral thesis consisting of 8 internationalpublications, international mention and outstanding cum laude, with an extraordinary prize: “Current geomorphological processes in sloping vineyards. A comparison between Ruwer-Mosel Valley (Trier, Germany) and Montes de Málaga (Málaga, Spain)”. Currently, he is also preparing a second doctorate in engineering in Geomatics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His research career consists of four complete monographs (Nova, Springer, etc.) and one edited (Elsevier), 176 indexed publications (Scopus)/>130 JCR and leading international collaborations with research teams from Iran, China, Kazakhstan, Sudan, India, Brazil, Croatia, Iraq or the USA. He was a regular reviewer in more than 140 indexed international journals (e.g., Scientific Reports, Science of the Total Environment, PlosOne, Catena, Geoderma, Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment or Earth-science Review), a member of the jury of 2 doctoral theses and the evaluator of projects for the Ministries of Science of Chile,Peru, the USA, Serbia, Switzerland, Kazakhstan or Poland and postgraduate scholarships for DAAD. He has organized several scientific meetings and congresses (e.g., Action Cost, V Biohydrology, Fire in the Earth, etc.), sessions at international conferences (EGU, TerraEnvision, Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, etc.), oral presentations and conferences master classes (Germany, Bulgaria, Norway, etc.). He was an editor-in-chief of the indexed journal (Scopus and ESCI; Q2) Air Soil and Water Research (SAGE). In addition, he is an associate editor at Scientific Reports (Nature), Hydrological Science Journal (Taylor & Francis), Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer), Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer) and Journal of Mountain Science (Springer). He has participated as Researcher in R+D+I projects on social issues related to housing or the census or transfer and knowledge at a European level, such as the INTERREG Smart-Light HUB project (light pollution) or COST FIRElinks (fires). Currently, he is Working Group Leader 5 of this mentioned COST Action related to socio-economic and regional issues. He has been invited to give lectures on agriculture, sustainable management and erosion. He has supervised 5 final degree projects and 3 completed master's degrees. He has taught regulated and certified teaching at the Universities of Granada, Valencia, Málaga, León, Oviedo, Trier (in German) and Quito (Ecuador) on development, geomorphology, Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing and statistical techniques. He was recently awarded a Leonardo Scholarship (BBVA Foundation) and supervises one Ph.D. thesis.

• Evaluation the use of direct seeding system instead of stubble burning as a main cause of possible wildfire.- Wildfire education: A review across the globe.- Forest fire risk management at the country scale: The case of Turkey.- Fire management and preparedness in the Czech Republic.- Decision systems in disaster management with application to fire.- Preliminary assessment of the wildfire risks as a tool for their management. The case of Bulgarian forests.- Vulnerability to Wildfires and Peri-urban Areas: an Integrated Socio-environmental Assessment.- Wildland firefighters: a crucial weapon for forest fire management. Which health risks do they face?.- The cost of forest fires: a socioeconomic analysis.- The mediatization of the resilience frame: a new understanding of wildfires in the Spanish mainstream media (2017-2021).- Fire severity as a determinant of the socioeconomic impact of wildfires.- Forest Ecosystems, Forest Fire Internet of Things (FFIoT) and Socioeconomic Aspects.- Socioeconomic impacts and regional drivers of fire management: the case of Portugal.- Regional issues of fire management: the role of extreme weather, climate and vegetation type.