Carys Garland is pleased to welcome Alexander Held, Senior Expert of the Resilience Programme for Integrated Fire Management. Held explains how Europe's escalating wildfire crisis is exposing the limits of a response model built around emergency suppression rather than long-term resilience. His central thesis is that the challenge is no longer primarily one of firefighting but of landscape governance. Climate change may intensify the conditions for extreme fires, yet the scale and destructiveness of these events are also shaped by decades of land abandonment, fuel accumulation, changing agricultural practices, and political incentives that favour highly visible emergency responses over less visible preventive measures. Video by: Carys GARLAND