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“Living with Fire” Webinar on Wildfire and flood risk in the Mediterranean Summary

PyroLife Symposium - Webinar Summaries
By Simona Dossi  Identifying gaps, challenges and opportunities towards integrated risk management This was the first Europe-focused “Living with Fire” webinar; during which wildfire and flood risk in the Mediterranean were explored by discussing the gaps, challenges and opportunities towards an integrated risk management. Three presenters shared their expertise from Mediterranean risk management: Eduard Plan and Marta Giambellia are risk management professionals based in Spain and Italy respectively, and Bàrbara Ortuño is the mayor of the El Bruc municipality in Catalonia. Plana started the webinar by presenting a conceptual overview of wildfire risk management, Ortuño followed by sharing her municipality’s […]
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Fire journaling: communicating creatively about wildfires

Fire science: in language for all
Hello! My name is Isabeau Ottolini, and I am one of the PyroLife Early Stage Researchers. As part of my PhD, I am exploring creative ways of communicating – on a community level – about wildfires, with the aim to foster a socioecological transformation towards Living with Fire. Today we’re going to look at a great example: fire journaling. Inspired by nature journaling, this is a personal, place-based practice through which anyone can express their knowledges, observations, experiences, and curiosity surrounding wildfires. By Miriam Morrill – Smoke & air quality during a fire First things first: what is nature journaling? Nature […]
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The International Savanna Fire Management Initiative

PyroLife Webinar Series
By Sarah Meier Throughout history, Indigenous peoples around the globe have managed their lands using fire for social, cultural, and environmental purposes. With European colonization, traditional fire management practices decreased as local communities were forcibly removed from their lands. As a result, high-intensity fire regimes developed leading to high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from savanna fires. Ariadne Gorring dived into her fascinating work in the Kimberley region in Northwestern Australia. This area, of a size comparable to the state of California, is sparsely populated counting about 40,000 people, half of which are Indigenous, living in over 100 remote communities. Ari […]
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Q&A: Indigenous Fire Management: past, present, and future

PyroLife Webinar Series
The conversations with  Simon Lambert, Amy Cardinal and Brady W. Highway was so inspiring and stimulating, the questions kept pouring in! So… Let’s go to the questions from the participants 1/8: Why would you say that indigenous knowledge and science are two different things? I personally would say both are about the creation of knowledge, no matter the approach. Amy Cardinal : Agreed! We were speaking here about ‘Western’ or ‘Euro-centric’ knowledge – which often is portrayed as the only scientific method. However, there’s many different ways to create knowledge. It depends on your interpretation of the word ‘science’. But […]
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