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Kirschner, Ascoli, Moore, Clark, Calvani, Boustras
Fire is a fundamental social-ecological process, but a combination of changing climate, land use and values at risk is increasing the incidence of large wildfires with high societal and biodiversity impacts. Academic and practitioner understanding…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Vigna, Battisti, Ascoli, Besana, Pezzoli, Comino
The impact of natural disturbances such as wildfires on ecosystem services and local communities is significant. Conventional assessments of wildfire risks often overlook the potential loss of ecosystem services, particularly cultural ones (CES).…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
McCormack, Miller, McDonald
Background
Prescribed fire is a critical tool for building resilience to changing fire regimes. Policymakers can accelerate the development of effective, adaptation-oriented fire governance by learning from other jurisdictions.
Aims: We analyse…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Clarke, Cirulis, Borchers-Arriagada, Storey, Ooi, Haynes, Bradstock, Price, Penman
Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Wood, Varner
[from the text] For millennia, Indigenous communities managed forests in the American West with fire to produce a range of environmental and cultural benefits. This long history of cultural burning combined with frequent lightning produced fire-…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Rodriguez, Inturias, Masay, Peña
Drawing on decolonial thought, this article provides a perspective on local indigenous knowledge and governance systems as a resource for informing wildfire risk policy approaches and collaborative environmental security. In 2019, the Indigenous…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Regmi, Kreye, Kreye
Prescribed burning is important for the ecological health of fire-dependent forests, however, there is little economic research examining landowner preferences for living with fire in the age of the Anthropocene. To understand the value of…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Wolters
As a result of climate change and past management practices, wildfires are becoming larger and occurring more frequently than ever before in the Western U.S. In order to mitigate the effects of this growing threat, fire management agencies such as…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Sjöström, Granström
Organization of successful wildfire prevention and suppression require detailed information on ignition causes, size distributions and relations to weather. From a large and highly detailed dataset of Swedish wildfire incidents (n = 124 000) we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Neidermeier, Zagaria, Pampanoni, West, Verburg
Many parts of Europe face increasing challenges managing wildfires. Although wildfire is an integral part of certain ecosystems, fires in many places are becoming larger and more intense, driven largely by climate change, land abandonment, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2023