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Leverhulme Wildfires expert Prof Martin Wooster awarded MBE in New Year Honours
A huge congratulations to our Associate Director Prof Martin Wooster, expert in wildfires and earth observation at KCL, for being awarded an MBE in the 2025…
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What does the next generation of fire-vegetation models look like?
On the 16th of September the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society hosted a number of international visitors at Dartington Hall in Devon, for a…
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Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Wildfire Management in Monreale, Sicily
Wildfires in the Mediterranean region have emerged as a pressing issue, exacerbated by climate change and evolving land use practices. Traditionally, fire management strategies have leaned…
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The global drivers of wildfire: connecting empirical evidence to modelling practices
The Leverhulme Wildfires Fire-Veg Giraffe Team has published a new paper “The Global Drivers of Wildfire” in Frontiers in Environmental Science. This paper compares how the…
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.1
Welcome to the first Giraffe Team Bulletin! For those new to our “Giraffe Teams”, you can find out more about each one of them, including their…
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“The Encouragement I didn’t know I needed” – Reflections from Visiting Researcher, Candice Charlton
Seven months after I first encountered Professor Prentice’s Earth Systems poster at the World Climate Research Programme Open Conference in Rwanda, I was at the Leverhulme…
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Making human fire use data more accessible: The Global Fire Use Survey app
In 2022 and 2023, researchers in the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society distributed the Global Fire Use Survey to academics and fire practitioners, gathering…
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Using participatory video to explore our time in the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society
In participatory video research, researchers facilitate a process whereby research participants iteratively plan, shoot, edit and screen videos exploring issues that are important to them. Participatory…
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MasterScience: “The Battle Against Megafires” with Prof. Apostolos Voulgarakis | AXA Research Fund
From Australia and the Amazon to Siberia and Greece, every region on the globe has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the past decade. But why is this…
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Rupununi Fire Recommendations
The Rupununi in Guyana comprises a savanna ecosystem, which is flammable yet fire dependent. Many people use and depend on fire for their livelihoods. However, in…
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