ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Anthropogenic warming is a key climate indicator of rising urban fire activity in China.National science review · 2024Article
- The contribution of Indigenous stewardship to an historical mixed-severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2023Article
- Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
- Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire.Regional environmental change · 2022Article
- African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface in the Southwest United States.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Indigenous impacts on North American Great Plains fire regimes of the past millennium.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- An Integrative Review of Empirical Research on Perceptions and Behaviors Related to Prescribed Burning and Wildfire in the United States.Environmental management · 2018Review
- Wildfire policy and management in England: an evolving response from Fire and Rescue Services, forestry and cross-sector groups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- The interaction of fire and mankind: Introduction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- The role of fire in UK peatland and moorland management: the need for informed, unbiased debate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
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Abstract
Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire challenges at local, national and transnational scales. Exploiting our diverse, international and interdisciplinary expertise, we outline generalizable properties of fire-adaptive communities in varied settings where cultural knowledge of fire is rich and diverse. At the national scale, we discussed policy and management challenges for countries that have diminishing fire knowledge, but for whom global climate change will bring new fire problems. Finally, we assessed major fire challenges that transcend national political boundaries, including the health burden of smoke plumes and the climate consequences of wildfires. It is clear that to best address the broad range of fire problems, a holistic wildfire scholarship must develop common agreement in working terms and build across disciplines. We must also communicate our understanding of fire and its importance to the media, politicians and the general public.This article is part of the themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.
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