Judith Kirschner

Judith did a Master’s in Earth Sciences, where her thesis on palaeofires introduced her to the field of fire as a fundamental Earth system process and driver of landscape diversity. Her work in PyroLife is on wildfire governance, with a focus on the socio-ecological context of fire regimes. Wildfires often burn across administrative and political boundaries and affect a variety of actors that are not necessarily involved in causing them. Exploring interactions between the environment and the social system with different institutions (strategies, legislation, and policies; but also norms, attitudes, and values) on a local to European level is key to finding novel ways of governing fires as a management tool, disaster risk and ecological process.

Fire resilient governance

Hands-on work  |  Planning

German, English, Spanish, Dutch

• BSc: ‘Environment and bioresources management’ (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna)
• MSc: ‘Earth Sciences: Geo-ecological dynamics’ (University of Amsterdam)

J.Kirschner@research.euc.ac.cy

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