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Spínola, Soares da Silva, Assis da Silva, Barlow, Ferreira
1) Unprecedented forest fires are affecting large swathes of what were once fire‐free Amazonian forests, including extensive areas of community‐managed reserves. This shared overview of experiences of practitioners and researchers examines ways in…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Cavanagh
During the summer of 2019/20 Australia suffered unprecedented wildfires. In these fires 33 people died, and another 450 people were killed from the effects of smoke from the fires. The fires burnt across 10 million hectares,…
Type: Media
Year: 2020
Perkins
Minority landowners' considerations are often not well represented in surveys, but may play important roles in landscapes with frequent fires from an ecological perspective and from the standpoint of wildfire safety preparedness and community…
Type: Media
Year: 2020
Ngugi, Knight, Hua, Dowling, Kington, Burns
Appropriate fire management strategies are needed to protect forests and large old ecologically and culturally significant trees in natural landscapes. The aim of this study was to determine the age of large old and relic trees of cultural…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Temudo, Oom, Pereira
Ever since colonial times, the rural inhabitants of Guinea-Bissau have been blamed for lighting uncontrolled fires all over the country. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in two regions, a country-level rapid rural appraisal, and analysis of…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Hamilton, Salerno
The potential for prescribed fire to address fuel management and forest restoration goals has received considerable attention. However, many wildfire risk mitigation practitioners and researchers consider prescribed fire to be an underutilized tool…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Seijo, Godoy, Guglielmin, Ciampoli Halaman, Ebright, Picco, Defossé
The creation of protected conservation areas may result in protracted conflicts between stakeholders. In this study we examine the drivers of anthropogenic wildfire ignitions in the National Park of “los Alerces” (NPA) in Patagonia, Argentina. The…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Ansell, Evans, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, Rangers
The growth of the carbon industry in Australia over the last decade has seen an increase in the number of eligible offsets projects utilising the savanna burning methods in northern Australia. Many of these projects are operated by Aboriginal people…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Jahdi, Salis, Alcasena, Arabi, Arca, Duce
We implemented a fine-scale fire modeling approach to assess wildfire exposure in the highly valued resources and assets (HVRAs) of Ardabil Province (18,000 km2), northwestern Iran. For this purpose, we used the minimum travel time algorithm…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Lindskoug, Villafañez
Fire is an integral part of almost all ecosystems on Earth and an important factor in shaping our surroundings. Based on pedoanthracological research, we have reconstructed part of the past landscape and the paleoenvironmental context in an area…
Type: Document
Year: 2020