TY - JOUR
T1 - Living on a flammable plannet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessions, prospects and challenges
AU - Roos, Christopher
AU - Scott, Andrew
AU - Belcher, Claire
AU - Chaloner, William
AU - Aylen, Jonathan
AU - Bird, Rebecca
AU - Coughlan, Michael
AU - Johnson, Bart
AU - Johnston, Fay
AU - McMorrow, Julia
AU - Steelman, Toddi
AU - Kettridge, Nicholas
PY - 2016/5/23
Y1 - 2016/5/23
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.2015.0469
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2015.0469
M3 - Article
SN - 0962-8452
VL - 371
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B
ER -