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

ABSTRACT: Human fire use is a key activity and process in many landscapes and ecosystems around the world, varying spatiotemporally depending on social, economic, and ecological factors. Recently, initiatives have begun to synthesise data on global fire use from across multiple disciplines and disparate sources into coherent databases. Here, we draw on information from one of these databases, the Livelihood Fire Database, which collates data on fire use practices worldwide from case studies in the literature. We examine data from 345 case study locations spanning 69 countries regarding return interval, area burned, and seasonality of anthropogenic fires set to meet small-scale rural livelihood objectives and/or for cultural reasons. We distinguish patterns in the spatiotemporal nature of fires assoc

SUBMITTER: Smith C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12818736 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature