Living with fire and the need for diversity

C. R. Stoof; N. Kettridge

doi:10.1029/2021EF002528

Living with fire and the need for diversity

C. R. Stoof^*, N. Kettridge

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	e2021EF002528
Number of pages	6
Journal	Earth's Future
Volume	10
Issue number	4
Early online date	9 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002528
Publication status	Published - Apr 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The ideas presented here have been developed through numerous conversation amongst the wildfire community. We would notably wish to thank Eduard Plana Bach, Núria Prat‐Guitart, Peter Moore, Alexander Held, Rob Gazzard, Lisa Langer, Guillermo Rein, Lucian Deaton, Peter Vermeulen and all contributors to the PyroLife network. C.R.S. and N.K. are the creators of the PyroLife Innovative Training Network, that trains 15 early stage researchers across Europe in integrated fire management. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska‐Curie grant agreement No. 860787. Natasha de Sena was commissioned to design Figure 1 . We thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this work.

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© 2022 The Authors. Earth's Future published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.

Keywords

diversity
education
fire
integrated fire management
training
wildfire

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General Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

UN SDGs

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