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A Characterization of Fire-Management Research: A Bibliometric Review of Global Networks and Themes
Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type
Although humans have interacted with wildfires for millennia, a science-based approach to fire management has evolved in recent decades. This paper reviews the development of fire-management research, focusing on publications that use this term in their title, abstract, or keywords identified on the Scopus platform.
Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States
Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
Background
Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to exacerbate impacts to forested ecosystems by increasing the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires across the western United States (US).
A roadmap for pyrodiversity science
Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
Background
Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity across taxa and geographies. Pyrodiversity, or heterogeneity in fire history, is often an important driver of biodiversity, though it has been largely overlooked until relatively recently.
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration
Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type
Knowledge of how ecocultural landscapes co-evolved, how they were shaped and maintained by local people, and what processes disturbed the landscape should inform the planning, execution, and significance of restoration projects. Indigenous stewardship has resulted in legacies of diverse and productive ecocultural environments.
Communicating with the public about wildland fire: A resource for practitioners to plan engagement strategies
Year of Publication
2021
Publication Type
This infographic summarizes recommendations from a review of 32 research studies about communicating with the public about wildland fire and smoke
Communicating with the public about wildland fire preparation, response, and recovery
Year of Publication
2021
Publication Type
This literature review synthesizes empirical research about wildland fire communication to provide practitioners, such as land managers, public health and safety officials, community groups, and others working with the public, evidence-based recommendations for communication work.
Perceptions of wildland fire smoke
Year of Publication
2021
Publication Type
With exposure to wildland fire smoke projectedto further increase (Barbero et al. 2015) there is aclear need for efforts to better mitigate or adapt tosmoke impacts in high-risk areas. Such efforts relyon an understanding of how people perceive, planfor, and respond to smoke.
Communicating with the public about wildland fire: A resource for practitioners to plan engagement strategies
Year of Publication
2021
Product Type
This infographic summarizes recommendations from a review of 32 research studies about communicating with the public about wildland fire and smoke
Communicating with the public about wildland fire preparation, response, and recovery
Year of Publication
2021
Product Type
This literature review synthesizes empirical research about wildland fire communication to provide practitioners, such as land managers, public health and safety officials, community groups, and others working with the public, evidence-based recommendations for communication work. Key findings demonstrate that it is important to recognize communication as a context-specific and dynamic process, not a linear pathway or prescription, or one-size-fits-all approach. We found that practitioners engaging in this work may be most effective when they get to know their diverse publics, engage in honest and sincere relationship building, and communicate in ways that are locally and culturally relevant. This review offers recommendations from the academic literature for how and where to engage in communication about wildland fire and smoke from wildland fire. These recommendations are not intended to be a set of rigid prescriptions; rather, they are intended to provide a starting point for practitioners to think about the multiple ways to engage with the diverse groups with whom they work.