Project Details
Description
Controlled human fire use in landscape management is poorly understood by policymakers and the public, while wildfires get a lot of attention. Yet, these fire use practices are often vital to livelihoods and cultures, especially in LMICs, and in some places, are important ecologically and for wildfire risk reduction. Advocates for controlled fire use, including Indigenous advocacy groups and policymakers, and scientists trying to predict future fire regimes, lack easily accessible fire use data. This is partly because human fire uses are hard to disentangle from wildfires in satellite imagery. Using two new global datasets that collate observations of human fire use from the ground up, we created an interactive online dashboard (also available offline) to make the data easily accessible, followed by a series of workshops allowing fire managers and academics from South and Central America, Southern and Eastern Africa, West Africa, Asia and Guyana to explore how they could use the data in their work. These workshops (and subsequent case studies) highlighted the potential benefits of the app as a new source of data for fire managers and academics in the Global South for informing their work on fire management, policy development, awareness raising and collaboration.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/11/23 → 30/04/24 |