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Johansson, Senay, Creathorn, Kassa, Hylander
In flammable shrublands fire size often depends on local management. Policy and land use change can drastically alter fire regimes, affecting livelihoods, biodiversity, and carbon storage. In Ethiopia, burning of vegetation is banned, but the burn…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Moore
Purpose of Review: This review is on global wildland fire management research needs from the standpoint of 'integrated fire management'. It seeks to apply a characterisation of fires to frame research needs, and also recognise some differences in…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Eisenberg, Anderson, Collingwood, Sissons, Dunn, Meigs, Hibbs, Murphy, Kuiper, SpearChief-Morris, Little Bear, Johnston, Edson
Until Euro-American colonization, Indigenous people used fire to modify eco-cultural systems, developing robust Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Since 1980, wildfire activity has increased due to fire suppression and climate change. In 2017,…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Pyne
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Aslan, Sandor, Souther
Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is home to unique species, sites of immense cultural and historical value, and more than 5 million people. This sensitive region is also threatened by a changing fire regime, spurred by climate change, long-term drought, and…
Type: Media
Year: 2019
Marschall, Stambaugh, Jones, Abadir
Long‐term, ecosystem‐specific fire regime information improves natural community restoration and management by providing a basis for scientifically reasoned fire management prescriptions. Historical fire regimes can be reconstructed to sub‐annual…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Pyne
Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the Northeast has led national developments in fire. Its intellectuals argued for model preserves in the Adirondacks and at Yellowstone, oversaw the first mapping of the American fire scene for the 1880 census, staffed…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Rampant, Zdunic, Burrows
Flammable spinifex grasslands of arid Western Australia cover about 98 million hectares of the state, and large wildfires in this environment threaten biodiversity, life, property and cultural values. Understanding fire behaviour in spinifex…
Type: Document
Year: 2019