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ASSW 2024 – High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health Workshop 3 (21 Mar 2024)
High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health 3 Thursday 21st March 2024 Hybrid Open Session(Online/Edinburg, Scotland) 08:30-12:30 (GMT) Organisers: Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, ACRoBEAR, Arctic Voices, and ARCTIC PASSION Conference website: https://www.assw.info Conference registration: https://assw.info/registration Unofficial session sign-up – here >>>PARTICPANTS – LINK TO WORKSHOP GOOGLE DOC << * There is an online […]
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Research Associate in Fire Ecology (Closing date 15 Mar 2024)
Job summary Visit job posting on Imperial website Reference NAT01649 Date posted 16 Feb 2024 Closing date 15 March 2024 The Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society (https://centreforwildfires.org/) has recently restructured its activities around a small number of interdisciplinary, cross-institutional teams. One of these is the Fire-Vegetation Interactions team, which aims to combine information […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Exploring our time in Leverhulme Wildfires so far through participatory video (12 Apr 2024)
This workshop is for Centre members and affiliates Workshop title: ‘Exploring our time in Leverhulme Wildfires so far through participatory video’ Timings and location: 12th April, 11am – 7pm, Imperial College London (rooms tbc) Description: The workshop will introduce participatory video as a methodology, with teams working to plan, shoot, and edit our own videos […]
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Fire in Practice: Bruce Farquharson – Creating a Resilient Landscape (5 Mar 2024)
Creating a Resilient Landscape 5th March 2024, 4-5pm GMT Register here Abstract Fire is a naturally occurring phenomenon and has been used as a tool for generations across the world. It has the potential to have a catastrophic impact on our landscape, but also to be an incredibly useful tool that can prevent the negative […]
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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Fire Governance (Closing date 16 March 2024)
Department of Geography View on RHUL website Location: Egham Salary: £41,481 per annum – including London Allowance Fixed Term Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Saturday 16 March 2024 Reference: 0224-055 Full Time, Fixed Term Applications are invited for the post of Post Doctoral Research Associate in Fire Governance within the Leverhulme Centre […]
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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Fire, Livelihoods and Biodiversity (Closing date 16 March 2024)
Department of Geography View on RHUL website Location: Egham Salary: £41,481 per annum – including London Allowance Fixed Term Post Type: Full Time Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Saturday 16 March 2024 Reference: 0224-054 Full Time, Fixed Term Applications are invited for the post of Post Doctoral Research Associate in Fire, Livelihoods and Biodiversity within […]
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Fire in Practice: Christine Rosche – Wildfire, Through the Eye of a Canon: From Fire Ranger to Photographer (20 Feb 2024)
Wildfire, Through the Eye of a Canon: From Fire Ranger to Photographer Register on Eventbrite here Abstract What does 28 wildfire seasons look like, literally? Join Christine Rosche as she talks about, and visually describes her progression from boots on the ground, to face behind a camera, and the all the places between. Her roles […]
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Trade-offs and synergies in multi-level fire governance: Highlights from an international workshop
Policies and perspectives influencing the governance of fire vary around the world. Over past centuries colonial and post-colonial states have suppressed burning activities to varying degrees and many continue to do so in a variety of ways. But in recent decades there has been growing recognition of the importance of Indigenous burning practices, and some […]
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Sicily workshop report – “Managing Fires, Overcoming Emergency, Planning Prevention”– University of Palermo, Sicily (Nov 14, 2023)
By Erika Piroli, Imperial College London On November 14, 2023, the Working Group on Wildfire Management of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF), in collaboration with the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Sciences (SAAF) at the University of Palermo, organized a workshop at the “G.P. Ballatore” lecture hall. The event, […]
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Why fire limits our options to respond to climate change
By Ol Perkins and James Millington, King’s College London When you think of fire and climate change, you might think of images from last summer’s fires across Greece or Northern Canada. Rightly so – these represent an important and growing climate adaptation challenge. However, fire also has another important interaction with climate change: by restricting […]
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