Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as
the safety and economic wellbeing of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas. The …

Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of
complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although Indigenous …

This synthesis uses an overarching analogy to outline key wildfire social science lessons
and present human adaptation to wildfire as an ongoing process of negotiated trade-offs …

In recent years, a worldwide expansion in the frequency of large, uncontrolled, and
catastrophic wildfire events has occurred, creating drastic social, economic, and …

Along with the increase in the frequency of disastrous wildfires and bushfires around the
world during the recent decades, scholarly research efforts have also intensified in this …

Societies must learn to live with, and adapt to wildfire risk. Here we examine wildfire
governance and policy in British Columbia (BC), Canada over the last two decades, to …

Recovery from wildfire is often cast as the rebuilding of homes by the displaced. This focus
ignores the diversity of livelihoods and access to resources among people living in the …

One consequence of global change causing widespread concern is the possibility of
ecosystem conversions from one type to another. A classic example of this is vegetation type …

Every year, wildfires destroy thousands of buildings in the United States, especially in the
rapidly growing wildland-urban interface, where homes and wildland vegetation meet or …

Wildfire losses are increasing across the United States, and yet land use planning to reduce
wildfire risk is not federally mandated and is rarely used by local jurisdictions. We examined …