Fire management - Global assessment 2006

This global overview of fires in vegetation is based on 12 regional working papers submitted mainly by representatives of the UN/ISDR Global Wildland Fire Network in late 2005. Although many of the countries concerned acknowledge that the reliability of the information may not be high, it is nevertheless the best estimate of the global fire situation to date an gives a good indication of the scale of the impact of vegetation fires on society, on the economy and on the environment.