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'Right-way' science: reflections on co-developing Indigenous and Western cross-cultural knowledge to support Indigenous cultural fire management

McKemey, Rangers, Costello, Hunter, Ens
Contemporary Indigenous cultural fire management facilitates opportunities for Indigenous peoples to connect to and manage their Country, as well as providing scope for research. Right-way science is defined as collaborative process of bringing…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

A century of drought in Hawaiʻi: geospatial analysis and synthesis across hydrological, ecological, and socioeconomic scales

Frazier, Giardina, Giambelluca, Brewington, Chen, Chu, Fortini, Hall, Helweg, Keener, Longman, Lucas, Mair, Oki, Reyes, Yelenik, Trauernicht
Drought is a prominent feature of Hawaiʻi’s climate. However, it has been over 30 years since the last comprehensive meteorological drought analysis, and recent drying trends have emphasized the need to better understand drought dynamics and multi-…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Anticipating future extreme wildfires by predicting the probability of ignition and escape of initial attack in Catalunya

Catelo, Rodrígues, Ameztegui
In recent years, the EU has implemented several firefighting-related policies to battle and reduce the negative impacts of wildfires. However, the changing environment constantly surprises us with extreme events that cause massive losses for the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Beyond pre-Columbian burning: the impact of firewood collection on forest fuel loads

Markwith, Paudel
Government agencies in the United States (US) adopted a prescribed burning policy based in part on paleo-environmental evidence of pre-Columbian Native American burning regimes. However, biomass collection by Native Americans in the pre-Columbian…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Bushfire smoke and children’s health - exploring a communication gap

Walsh, Sargent, Cevik-Compiegne, Roberts, Palfrey, Gooyers-Bourke, Vardoulakis, Laachir
The “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019/2020 in Australia generated smoke that persisted for over three months, mainly affecting Eastern Australia. Most communication strategies focused on the fire itself, revealing a knowledge gap in effective…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

California’s strategic plan for expanding the use of beneficial fire

[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Centering indigenous voices: the role of fire in the boreal forest of North America

Christianson, Sutherland, Moola, Bautista, Young, MacDonald
Purpose of Review: Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existing literature documenting Indigenous voices and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Changing fire regimes during the first olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: new high-resolution evidence from the Sea of Galilee, Israel

Miebach, Power, Resag, Netzel, Colombaroli, Litt
Throughout the Mediterranean biome, fire has been a dominant natural agent of change and an important tool for anthropogenic landscape modifications for millennia. However, fundamental knowledge on the complex linkages among fire, vegetation, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Climate Change and Native Knowledge

Robbins
In her talk "Climate Change and Native Knowledge," Margo Robbins shares her experience bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge into practice as her and her networks rekindle an age-old relationship with fire. She discusses how using smaller,…
Type: Media
Year: 2022

Climate change vulnerability assessments in the National Park Service: An integrated review for infrastructure, natural resources, and cultural resources (revised)

Climate changes are affecting virtually all National Park Service units and resources, and an assessment of climate vulnerabilities is important for developing proactive management plans to respond appropriately to these changes and threats.…
Type: Document
Year: 2022