NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) – COOPERATION WITH GFMC
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
Since the early 1990s the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and its predecessor institution – the Fire Ecology Research Group – have cooperated with the NATO Scientific Affairs Division. The following reports and papers covering regional to global landscape fire issues were prepared at the GFMC:
- NATO Support to Fire Research
- NATO Workshop: Science Policy: New Mechanisms for Scientific Collaboration between East and West (Novosibirsk, Russia, 22-25 November 1993)
- NATO Workshop: Sediment Records of Biomass Burning and Global Change (Algarve, Portugal, 11-14 October 1994)
- NATO Targeted Program of Cooperative Research (Moscow, Russia, 30-31 October 2000)
- NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Use of Satellite and in Situ Data to Improve Sustainability (Kyiv and Chornobyl, Ukraine, 9-12 June 2009)
The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) was created in 1998 as the focal point for coordinating disaster relief efforts of the 46 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) nations in case of natural or technological disasters within the EAPC geographical area. The GFMC is linked to EADRCC.
For the first time a large forest fire exercise was held under the auspices of EADRCC. The field exercise “Taming the Dragon – Dalmatia 2002” was a Croatian contribution to the Partnership Work Programme (PWP).
The exercise was primarily conducted as a PWP Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) and Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Unit (EADRU) activity. It involved other networks and organizations such as the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative (DPPI) of the Stability Pact, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the South East Europe Group (SEEGROUP). GFMC was a participant of the exercise.
NATO web page “Taming the Dragon – Dalmatia 2002”(EADRCC web page currently not available – January 2025) (2002 web page contents mirrored by GFMC; PDF)- GFMC post of “Taming the Dragon – Dalmatia 2002”
- NATO South East Europe Security Cooperation Steering Group (SEEGROUP) progress report (08 June 2001)
See also:
- Better prepared for disasters and crises: Civil emergency management exercises at NATO (Factsheet) (mirrored by GFMC)
- Allied Air Forces support emergency services in fighting wild fires (05 August 2022) (mirrored by GFMC)
- Environment, climate change and security (updated: 18 July 2024) (mirrored by GFMC)
Visual Impressions of “Taming the Dragon – Dalmatia 2002”
Photographic documentation by GFMC:
Observation of recently burned areas on the way to the exercise site
The on-site coordination and command center
Exercise observers
The Swedish Team explaining the tactical fire suppression procedure
Attendees included representatives of NATO Member States and the media.
GFMC Team – at that time also contributing on behalf of INSARAG Europe-Africa
