Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

Key past publications from our Team

• 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)

   

• Adding Lines Along Pixels: Remote Sensing, Traditional Knowledge and Human–Fire Interactions in Ethiopia and India

  Geo: Geography and Environment

  Yadav, K., and Thompson, H., (2025)

• Fractal modeling of wildfire spread using environmental parameter fields across Mediterranean landscapes

  International Journal of Wildland Fire

  Roșu, I.A., Rovithakis, A., Grillakis, M., Petrakis, M.P. and Voulgarakis, A. (2025)

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