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After the fire: potential impacts of fire exclusion policies on historical Cherokee culture in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA

Colenbaugh, Hagan
Anthropogenic fire is generally accepted by contemporary foresters as shaping historical landscapes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the ancestral lands of the Cherokee people. However, the consensus on historical Cherokee cultural burning…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

An assessment of American Indian forestry research, information needs, and priorities

Dockry, Hoagland, Leighton, Durglo, Pradhananga
Native American and Alaska Native tribes manage millions of acres of land and are leaders in forestry and fire management practices despite inadequate and inequitable funding. Native American tribes are rarely considered as research partners due to…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Burn back better: how western states can encourage prescribed fire on private lands

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

Decolonizing wildfire risk management: indigenous responses to fire criminalization policies and increasingly flammable forest landscapes in Lomerío, Bolivia

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

Examining socioeconomic factors associated with wildfire occurrence and burned area in Galicia (Spain) using spatial and temporal data

de Diego, Fernández, Rúa, Kline
Background: The Spanish region of Galicia is one of the most fire-prone areas in Europe. Most wildfires are directly or indirectly related to human activities, suggesting that socioeconomic factors likely can inform wildfire management.…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Expert knowledge, collaborative concepts, and universal nature: naming the place of Indigenous knowledge within a public-sector cultural burning program

Weir
Investigates whether a cultural burning program embedded within a government bureaucracy can meaningfully support Indigenous peoples’ landscape fires. In particular, it presents evidence on how Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals encountered,…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Territories in transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural northwestern European Mediterranean areas

Uyttewaal, Prat-Guitart, Ludwig, Kroeze, Langer
Background: Rural and semi-rural areas are complex and dynamic social-ecological systems, many of which have experienced profound impacts from wildland fires, particularly this decade. Under uncertain climate change conditions, these areas require…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC

The report – Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – presents findings from 23 projects within four research themes, covering different issues and knowledge…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Demand for prescribed fire on private lands in the Mid-Atlantic United States - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Kreye, Kreye, Regmi
Fire is an important process that shapes the structure and composition of many North American forest ecosystems. In the absence of fire, fire-dependent tree species can be gradually replaced by fire-sensitive species. There is an increasing interest…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Diffusion of indigenous fire management and carbon-credit programs: opportunities and challenges for “scaling-up” to temperate ecosystems

Nikolakis, Welham, Greene
Savanna burning programs across northern Australia generate millions of dollars per year for Indigenous communities through carbon and other greenhouse gas (GHG) markets. In catalyzing Indigenous knowledge and workforce to mitigate destructive…
Type: Document
Year: 2022