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In the last decades, the collapse of the traditional rural socioeconomic systems that once characterized the Mediterranean region, along with land-use changes, have created conflicts and additional driving factors for rural fires. Within Europe, Portugal is the most affected country by rural fires. This work intends to demonstrate the importance of recovering and valorizing residual agroforestry biomass to reduce rural fire risk in Portugal, and thus contributing to a fire resilient landscape. From the results of the known causes of fires in Portugal, it becomes very clear that it is crucial to educate people to end risky behaviors, such as the burning of agroforestry leftovers that causes 27% of fires in Portugal each year. The valorization of the existing energy potential in the lignocellulosic biomass of agroforestry residues favors the reduction of the probability of rural fires, this being the focus of the project BioAgroFloRes\u2014Sustainable Supply Chain Model for Residual Agroforestry Biomass supported in a Web Platform\u2014introduced and explained here.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fire5030061","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,29]],"date-time":"2022-04-29T16:49:57Z","timestamp":1651250997000},"page":"61","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Reducing Rural Fire Risk through the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain Model for Residual Agroforestry Biomass Supported in a Web Platform: A Case Study in Portugal Central Region with the Project BioAgroFloRes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9631-9611","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Margarida","family":"Casau","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Economia, Gest\u00e3o, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"GOVCOPP, Unidade de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Governan\u00e7a, Competitividade e Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6695-8479","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marta","family":"Dias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Economia, Gest\u00e3o, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"GOVCOPP, Unidade de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Governan\u00e7a, Competitividade e Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7791-1932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leonor","family":"Teixeira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Economia, Gest\u00e3o, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto de Engenharia Eletr\u00f3nica e Inform\u00e1tica de Aveiro, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4329-6246","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jo\u00e3o","family":"Matias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Economia, Gest\u00e3o, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"GOVCOPP, Unidade de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Governan\u00e7a, Competitividade e Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5404-8163","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leonel","family":"Nunes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Economia, Gest\u00e3o, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"GOVCOPP, Unidade de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Governan\u00e7a, Competitividade e Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas, Campus Universit\u00e1rio de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal"},{"name":"PROMETHEUS, Unidade de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Materiais, Energia e Ambiente Para a Sustentabilidade, Escola Superior Agr\u00e1ria, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua da Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun\u2019Alvares, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal"},{"name":"Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3821","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-018-06358-z","article-title":"Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models","volume":"9","author":"Turco","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nat. 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