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    Indigenous representatives develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana, with support from Leverhulme Wildfires

    24th April, 23 / Latest News

    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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    Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – save the date, 25th July

    21st April, 23 / Events

    On 25th July 2023, we will be holding a Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference at Imperial College London.  Free to Attend and Open to All! Join us for talks and discussions with researchers and practitioners working on wildfires, by both members of our Centre and external international experts. Followed by a networking event, poster and photo […]

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    Summer placement 2023 (1) in wildfire research available for undergraduate students – Data Science Institute

    28th March, 23 / Opportunities

    We welcome applications for an 8-week summer placement project on the topic of “Wildfire spread prediction using deep learning and remote sensing data”, with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, on the topic of wildfires. This UROPs is offered on a remote or hybrid basis. On-campus attendance will be possible, but it will not be essential. *Applications are especially […]

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    Wildfires from above – What can and can’t we “hear”?

    3rd March, 23 / Latest News

    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

    22nd February, 23 / Latest News

    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

    21st February, 23 / Events , Latest News

    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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    Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth (1 Mar 2023)

    15th February, 23 / Events

    An multidisciplinary exploration of wildfire, and its relationship to people and the planet. 1st March 2023 Register on Eventbrite here Wildfires are one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, affecting nearly every continent on Earth, from Australia to as far north as the Arctic. But wildfires are a complex puzzle – they […]

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    Moto katika mazingira yanayoshindaniwa-kufanya kazi na washikadau wa Kenya kuelekea mbinu ya udhibiti wa moto iliyoondolewa ukoloni

    1st February, 23 / Latest News

    Muhtasari kutokana na sayansi ya kuondoa ukoloni wa moto-Warsha ya moto kote katika mandhari yaliyogombewa(1-2 disemba,2022, Nairobi), na Adriana Ford na Abigail Crocker. iliyotafsiriwa na Elijah Praise [English version here]   Katika mahali kwingi ulimwenguni,simulizi za kikoloni za kupambana na moto,kama vile Imani kwamba watu wa kiasili na jumuiya za mitaa huchoma ovyo,yanazidi kueleza mikakati […]

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    New FIRE-ADAPT project investigates how integrated fire management contributes to biodiversity, carbon, and cultural values

    31st January, 23 / Latest News

    A new project, FIRE-ADAPT, will investigate the benefits of fire in nature and society by integrating diverse areas of knowledge, from both the academic and operational world. The project, which is part of the Staff Exchanges program of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Union,  involves 15 European and 9 Latin American organizations, including […]

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    Forest carbon credits: report shows new ways to manage risks and returns

    29th January, 23 / Latest News

    Investors wanting to finance forest carbon credit projects should look to diversified investment portfolios in the tropics, says a new report. “The study sheds light on the biodiversity potential of forest projects, and the risks of wildfire and other weather and climate hazards, leveraging support from the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society” Read […]

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