Moreira F. auteur aut IRD Viedma O. auteur aut IRD Arianoutsou M. auteur aut IRD Curt T. auteur aut IRD Koutsias N. auteur aut IRD Rigolot E. auteur aut IRD Barbati A. auteur aut IRD Corona P. auteur aut IRD Vaz P. auteur aut IRD Xanthopoulos G. auteur aut IRD Mouillot Florent auteur aut IRD Bilgili E. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use changes in the last decades have increased fire risk and danger. In this paper we review the available scientific knowledge on the relationships between landscape and wildfires in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on its application for defining landscape management guidelines and policies that could be adopted in order to promote landscapes with lower fire hazard. The main findings are that (1) socio-economic drivers have favoured land cover changes contributing to increasing fire hazard in the last decades, (2) large wildfires are becoming more frequent, (3) increased fire frequency is promoting homogeneous landscapes covered by fire-prone shrublands; (4) landscape planning to reduce fuel loads may be successful only if fire weather conditions are not extreme. The challenges to address these problems and the policy and landscape management responses that should be adopted are discussed, along with major knowledge gaps. specialized Fire hazard Landscape changes Land use/land cover changes Land management Mediterranean Fire regime Climate change 082 021 92 10 2389-2402 2011 0301-4797 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053824 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.06.028 0301-4797 [F B010053824] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053824 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2011/09/010053824.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2011-10-06 2017-08-23 fdi:010053824 fre