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PhD Studentship: CO2 impacts on past and future fire regimes and their consequences for biodiversity
Project Description Much of the discussion of the drivers of recent changes in fire regimes has focused on the impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities. However, the direct impacts of changing atmospheric CO2 on plant growth and water-use efficiency could also affect biomass production and hence fuel loads, and therefore influence future fire regimes. […]
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Wildfires are ruinous – so how to stop them happening in the first place? (12 Feb 2020)
“In the wake of destruction caused by wildfires, most recently in Australia, experts are seeking ways of limiting their impact by managing forests better” Prof Guillermo Rein (Imperial) talks to the Guardian about megafires and the need for prescribed burning.
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Firing Up Climate Models (27 Jan 2020)
Our Associate Director Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis in EOS (Earth and Space News) on the challenges of incorporating wildfires into climate models.
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UK climate scientist corrects Australian MP Craig Kelly’s ‘blatant misrepresentation’, The Guardian (22 Jan 2020)
“Prof Sandy Harrison tells the Liberal on his Facebook page that his misuse of her study should not go unchallenged”
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Wildfires: Fire expert urges Australian government to “prepare now for 2021”
Imperial’s Professor Guillermo Rein spoke to Caroline Brogan at Imperial about what makes wildfires so dangerous, and what can be done to tackle them.
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and Local Knowledges
Applications are invited for the post of Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and local knowledge’s within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society based at Royal Holloway, University of London. This post will involve the conceptualisation and development of a framework and methodology that explicitly considers Indigenous and local communities’ fire knowledges within larger […]
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The Science of a Bushfire (14 Jan 2020)
Podcast with Prof Guillermo Rein for the Naked Scientists
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Climate change increases the risk of wildfires confirms new review (14 Jan 2020)
Human-induced climate change promotes the conditions on which wildfires depend, increasing their likelihood. This is according to a review of research on global climate change and wildfire risk published today. Continue reading…
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PhD Studentship: Contested fire management: Understanding trade-offs between traditional and government approaches to fire management
Project Description Fire is a critical component of many agricultural and livestock-based land use systems in the Global South where its management benefits from generations of local experience in how, when and where to set fires for maximum local benefit. In many countries, governments and conservation organisations have implemented a range of fire-related policies (from […]
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PhD Studentship: Physical and socio-economic drivers of changing fire dynamics in Ethiopia’s drylands and impacts on ecosystem services
Project Description Fire is a critical component of the ecology of African savannas and it is used by humans as a tool for rangeland management. Across much of northern Africa there has been a decreasing trend in burned area, but the drivers and impacts of these changes are not yet fully understood. These changing fire […]
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