Supporting a shift in wildfire management from fighting fires to thriving with fires: The need for translational wildfire science

Tedim, Fantina; McCaffrey, Sarah; Leone, Vittorio; Vázquez-Varela, Carmen; Depietri, Yaella; Buergelt, Petra; Lovreglio, Raffaella

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102565

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“…To address this, wildfire decisions can aim to allocate resources, invest in infrastructure and encourage selforganisation at individual and community levels (Ostrom 1990;Djalante et al 2013;Dodd et al 2018;Uyttewaal et al 2023). Similarly, Tedim et al (2016, p. 147) articulate a need to shift away from the 'passive expectation of institutional intervention' in communities, towards investing in bottom-up wildfire prevention by encouraging community involvement (Kocher and Butsic 2017;Oliveira et al 2017;Tedim et al 2021;Wunder et al 2021;Uyttewaal et al 2023). Adaptive institutions encourage flexibility, selforganisation and learning to react to uncertainties and characteristics unique to the local level (Folke et al 2003(Folke et al , 2005Djalante et al 2013).…”

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Uncharted territory: governance opportunities for wildfire management and the case of Cyprus

Kirschner,

Steelman,

Charalambidou

et al. 2024

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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Global environmental and social change are pushing wildfire activity and impact beyond known trajectories. Here, we conducted a targeted review to distill five wildfire challenges that we argue form opportunities for their governance (research aim 1). We exemplified our arguments by drawing from the case of Cyprus (research aim 2), a small island country in the south-east European Mediterranean Basin at risk of extreme wildfire impact. Findings indicate that burning for social and ecological resource benefits, innovative management paradigms and anticipatory governance systems offer actionable solutions to the wildfire paradox and the limits of suppression. Local adaptive institutions and a reconceptualisation of wildfire as a risk and process beyond technocratic interpretations are necessary to account for broader social conditions shaping wildfire regimes and community impact. Governance systems that accommodate collective action have proven suitable to address multiple wildfire complexities linked with different socio-economic systems and values. A systematic literature review, policy review, and qualitative data collection on wildfire management in Cyprus track back to the initial framing. Our case study offers insights for tackling wildfires with actionable steps through overarching governance systems, and illustrates the potential for change in thinking of and acting on wildfire in flammable landscapes globally.

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confidence: 99%

Uncharted territory: governance opportunities for wildfire management and the case of Cyprus

Kirschner,

Steelman,

Charalambidou

et al. 2024

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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“…In settings where publicly funded science is a critical underpinning of policy and risk management, barriers to disciplinary integration have persisted due to a lack of coproduction between scientists, policymakers, and practitioners to produce usable science that contributes to coordinated and intentional deployment of resources and risk management activities (Bremer & Meisch, 2017; Briley et al., 2015; Buizer et al., 2016; Dilling & Lemos, 2011; Kirchhoff et al., 2013; Lemos et al., 2012; Meadow et al., 2015; Tedim et al., 2021). These barriers have led to what is sometimes referred to as “loading dock science” where research and information are dropped off and never taken up for applications that could give them impact far beyond the academic context (Cash et al., 2006).…”

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Growing convergence research: Coproducing climate projections to inform proactive decisions for managing simultaneous wildfire risk

et al. 2023

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We apply a convergence research approach to the urgent need for proactive management of long‐term risk associated with wildfire in the United States. In this work we define convergence research in accordance with the US National Science Foundation—as a means of addressing a specific and compelling societal problem for which solutions require deep integration across disciplines and engagement of stakeholders. Our research team brings expertise in climate science, fire science, landscape ecology, and decision science to address the risk from simultaneous and impactful fires that compete for management resources, and leverages climate projections for decision support. In order to make progress toward convergence our team bridges spatial and temporal scale divides arising from differences in disciplinary and practice‐based norms. We partner with stakeholders representing US governmental, tribal, and local decision contexts to coproduce a robust information base for support of decision making about wildfire preparedness and proactive land/fire management. Our approach ensures that coproduced information will be directly integrated into existing tools for application in operations and policy making. Coproduced visualizations and decision support information provide projections of the change in expected number of fires that compete for resources, the number of fire danger days per year relative to prior norms, and changes in the length and overlap of fire season in multiple US regions. Continuing phases of this work have been initiated both by stakeholder communities and by our research team, a demonstration of impact and value.

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“…Now western society is slowly turning to these age old approaches to learn to live with fire (Mason et al., 2012). To do so, landscape fires should be managed more holistically to make communities and landscapes more fire resilient (Smith et al., 2016; Tedim et al., 2021; WFEC, 2014). This holistic approach finds a basis in the field of pyrogegraphy (Bowman et al., 2013) and integrated fire management (European Commission, 2018; FAO, 2006; Rego et al., 2021), that maximizes the benefits of fire and includes social, economic, cultural and ecological values in each step of the management cycle (prevention, preparedness, response, mitigation and recuperation).…”

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Living With Fire and the Need for Diversity

Stoof

Kettridge

2022

Earth's Future

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The 2018–2021 wildfire seasons were a glimpse of the future: deadly damaging fires in Mediterranean regions and high fire activity outside the typical fire season, also in temperate and boreal areas. This challenge cannot be solved with the traditional mono‐disciplinary approach of fire suppression. There is a critical need to change fire management from fire resistance to landscape resilience: Living with fire. Climate change thereby creates an urgency for understanding the integrated drivers of fire impacts and risks, and for designing creative and effective risk reduction, management and communication strategies. We argue that achieving this integrated fire management requires inter‐ and transdisciplinary research based on four axes of diversity: combining cross‐geography, cross‐risk, and cross‐sector approaches while embracing social diversity. This requires a new way of training our future experts, a broader way of defining scientific excellence, and stimulation of opportunities for people from various disciplines and sectors to meet and learn.

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Supporting a shift in wildfire management from fighting fires to thriving with fires: The need for translational wildfire science

Cited by 18 publications

References 82 publications

Uncharted territory: governance opportunities for wildfire management and the case of Cyprus

Uncharted territory: governance opportunities for wildfire management and the case of Cyprus

Growing convergence research: Coproducing climate projections to inform proactive decisions for managing simultaneous wildfire risk

Living With Fire and the Need for Diversity

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