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.
Suggested Citation
Russell, A., Fontana, N., Hoecker, T., Kamanu, A., Majumder, R., Stephens, J., Young, A., Cravens, A.E., Giardina, C., Hiers, K., Littell, J., and Terando, A., 2024, A fire-use decision model to improve the United States’ wildfire management and support climate change adaptation: Cell Reports Sustainability, v. 1, no. 6, 100125, 14 p., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100125.
| 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. |