Extreme wildfire ecology: lessons learned for integrated fire management

Marc Castellnou is an extrategic wildfire analyst and Incident Commander with the Catalan Fire Service in Spain, a role he has held since 1999. He has served as Chief of the Bombers GRAF Forest Fire Branch since 2001 and has been the director of the Catalan prescribed fire program since 1999. Since 2016, he has been a senior expert member of the European Civil Protection Mechanism. From 2011 to 2020, he served as President of the Pau Costa Foundation. His work has been recognized with the IAWF Safety Award in 2015 and the Batefuegos de Oro Award in 2021. He is also a Master Fuego professor at the University of Lleida (UdL), Spain.