A fire-use decision model to improve the United States’ wildfire management and support climate change adaptation

Russell, Aaron; Fontana, Nina; Hoecker, Tyler; Kamanu, Alyssa; Majumder, Reetam; Stephens, Jilmarie; Young, Adam M.; Cravens, Amanda E.; Giardina, Christian; Hiers, Kevin; Littell, Jeremy; Terando, Adam

doi:10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100125

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A fire-use decision model to improve the United States’ wildfire management and support climate change adaptation

2024
By Russell, Aaron ; Fontana, Nina ; Hoecker, Tyler ; ...

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Cell Reports Sustainability
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Russell, Aaron ; Fontana, Nina ; Hoecker, Tyler ; Kamanu, Alyssa ; Majumder, Reetam ; Stephens, Jilmarie ; Young, Adam M. ; Cravens, Amanda E. ; Giardina, Christian ; Hiers, Kevin ; Littell, Jeremy ; Terando, Adam
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The US faces multiple challenges in facilitating the safe, effective, and proactive use of fire as a landscape management tool. This intentional fire use exposes deeply ingrained communication challenges and distinct but overlapping strategies of prescribed fire, cultural burning, and managed wildfire. We argue for a new conceptual model that is organized around ecological conditions, capacity to act, and motivation to use fire and can integrate and expand intentional fire use as a tool. This result emerges from more considered collaboration and communication of values and needs to address the negative consequences of contemporary fire use. When applied as a communication and translation tool, there is potential to lower barriers to faster and more successful collaboration among stakeholders. Such improvements are a vital part of strategies to address climate adaptation, wildfire mitigation, and the well-being of ecosystems.
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Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(6), 100125
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100125
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2949-7906
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