Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

Key past publications from our Team

• Diverging fire trends in Northern Ghana’s savanna landscape: insights from remote sensing and institutional perspectives

  Fire Ecology

  Sidiki Alare, R., Tebbs, E. and Schreckenberg, K. (2026)

   

• Navigating discourses: Unpacking the problematisation of traditional burning practices in Northern Ghana

  Pyrogeography

  Sidiki Alare, R., Schreckenberg, K., and Tebbs, E. (2026)

   

   

• Predicting spatio-temporal wildfire propagation with dynamic firebreaks

  Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

  Zheng, J.,  Xu, Z.,  Arcucci, R., Harrison, S. P. , Xu, L. L. and Cheng, S. (2026)

• The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya

  Political Geography

  Yadav, K. (2026)

• The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter: a good start

  Nature Communications

  Yadav, K., Croker, A., Ford, A., Hayes, W., Kountouris, Y., Millington, J. Mistry. J., Moreu Vicente, M., Perkins, O., Screckenberg, K., Smith, C., Stiefel, M. and Valette, M. (2026)

   

• Unprecedented Burning in Tropical Peatlands During the 20th Century Compared to the Previous Two Millennia

  Global Change Biology

  Wang, Y. et al incl. Voulgarakis, A. (2026)

• Wildfires on a changing planet

  Nature Communications

  Haas, O., Prentice, I.C. & Harrison, S.P. (2026)

• A probabilistic approach to wildfire spread prediction using a denoising diffusion surrogate model

  Geoscientific Model Development

  Yu, W., Ghosh, A., Finn, T. S., Arcucci, R., Bocquet, M. and Cheng, S. (2026)

   

• Agrarianising the forest fire crisis: rethinking forest fires from grassroots in the Uttarakhand Himalaya

  The Journal of Peasant Studies

  Yadav, K. (2026)

• Small-scale livelihood and cultural fire: Global spatiotemporal characteristics, and gaps in data

  Plus One

  Smith, C., Kasoar, M., Perkins, O., Millington, J.D.A. and Mistry, J. (2025)

   

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