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Reflections from our Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference bursary recipients – Aline Naawa and Naftal Kariuki
For our Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023, we offered two fully-funded bursaries for PhD or MSc students from countries with low-middle income economies, to visit London for one week – to present a poster at our conference, and also give a talk at FiredUp2023, a student-led conference which was also held at Imperial on the same […]
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Wildfires FAQs
Working in collaboration with the Grantham Institute, we have together produced a set of FAQs relating to wildfires and climate, including: What is the impact of human-caused climate change on wildfires?; What are the impacts of wildfires on humans and the environment?; What can be done to reduce the increased risk of wildfires due to […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Poster Session 2023
Welcome to the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference Poster Hub! Here you can view a list of posters that were presented at the poster session, organised into the four main conference themes. To view the poster abstracts, please download here (xcel). Where provided, pdfs of the posters can accessed below. A big thank you to the […]
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Wildfires Research through the Lens (PhD Photography Competition)
In association with the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023, we ran a competition to find photographs and accompanying narratives that best communicate the impressive work of PhD students studying wildfires from across the world. We received 13 eligible entries from PhD students studying in the UK, USA, Greece and Switzerland, with photographs taken in Guyana, […]
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Understanding Wildfires in Sicily: A Stakeholder Consultation Workshop
Wildfires have become an increasingly common occurrence in Europe, with both intentional and unintentional human activities being the primary causes. While controlled fires can be beneficial to ecosystems, large-scale wildfires often lead to severe economic damage and pose significant threats to human lives. Italy, with its Mediterranean climate, is particularly susceptible to wildfires, and the […]
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Arctic Wildfires: Leverhulme Wildfires at ISAR-7
by Katie Blackford and Matt Kasoar (Department of Physics, Imperial College London) From the 6th to 10th March, we attended the Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research, held at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Japan. This biennial conference brings together hundreds of polar scientists from around the world, with a focus on […]
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Indigenous representatives develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana, with support from Leverhulme Wildfires
Indigenous representatives from Region 9 develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana with support from research by the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, UK Over twenty Indigenous representatives from the Rupununi came together to address growing concerns about fire management in Guyana. Together, they developed a set of Rupununi Fire Management […]
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Wildfires from above – What can and can’t we “hear”?
By Olivia Haas This article is associated with the event – Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth Wildfire seasons in the last few years have been some of the deadliest on record. Increasingly, images of a world on fire are being used to demonstrate the current climate emergency. However, our history with fire […]
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Conservation aflame
Abigail Croker is a PhD Student in the Centre for Environmental Policy, funded by the SSCP DTP, Grantham Institute, and affiliated with from the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. In this post, she tells us about the challenges the world faces when tackling wildfires in the era of climate change. Her fieldwork in […]
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Stolen Climate exhibition highlights the complexity of wildfire and its relationship with culture, climate and colonialism
In a world where changing patterns of wildfire are affecting people in more extreme ways, what can global perspectives on fire offer us? And how can different ways of knowing inform how we face the future? A new exhibition features a collection of artwork, film and photography which presents First Nations Peoples’ perspectives on fire, […]
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