A fire-use decision model to improve the United States’ wildfire management and support climate change adaptation
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Abstract
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.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A fire-use decision model to improve the United States’ wildfire management and support climate change adaptation |
| Series title | Cell Reports Sustainability |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100125 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication Date | June 28, 2024 |
| Year Published | 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cell Press |
| Contributing office(s) | Forest and Rangeland Ecosys Science Center, Southwest Biological Science Center, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center |
| Description | 100125, 14 p. |