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Trade-offs and synergies in multi-level fire governance: Highlights from an international workshop
Policies and perspectives influencing the governance of fire vary around the world. Over past centuries colonial and post-colonial states have suppressed burning activities to varying degrees…
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Sicily workshop report – “Managing Fires, Overcoming Emergency, Planning Prevention”– University of Palermo, Sicily (Nov 14, 2023)
By Erika Piroli, Imperial College London On November 14, 2023, the Working Group on Wildfire Management of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF),…
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Why fire limits our options to respond to climate change
By Ol Perkins and James Millington, King’s College London When you think of fire and climate change, you might think of images from last summer’s fires…
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What does Climate Justice Mean to You?
‘What does climate justice mean to you?‘ This was the question posed to students and staff in Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, for a creative arts…
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Mazingira yetu wajibu wetu – Our environment, Our responsibility
By Adriana Ford, Abi Croker and Shadrack Musyoki Mazingira yetu wajibu wetu – Our environment, Our responsibility Decolonising Climate Research – an Art-Science Workshop On 16th…
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Fires in the Scottish Uplands and their future impacts on ecosystem services
Photo: Prescribed fires in the Cairngorms National Park, February 2023. Source: M. Valette In this article, PhD student Michel Valette, from Imperial College London, reports on…
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Reflections from our Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference bursary recipients – Aline Naawa and Naftal Kariuki
For our Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023, we offered two fully-funded bursaries for PhD or MSc students from countries with low-middle income economies, to visit London…
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Wildfires FAQs
Working in collaboration with the Grantham Institute, we have together produced a set of FAQs relating to wildfires and climate, including: What is the impact of…
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Leverhulme Wildfires Poster Session 2023
Welcome to the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference Poster Hub! Here you can view a list of posters that were presented at the poster session, organised into…
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Wildfires Research through the Lens (PhD Photography Competition)
In association with the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023, we ran a competition to find photographs and accompanying narratives that best communicate the impressive work of…
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