New spatial analyses of Australian wildfires highlight the need for new fire, resource, and conservation policies.

ABSTRACT: Extensive and recurrent severe wildfires present complex challenges for policy makers. This is highlighted by extensive wildfires around the globe, ranging from western North America and Europe to the Amazon and Arctic, and, most recently, the 2019-2020 fires in eastern Australia. In many jurisdictions, discussions after significant losses of life, property, and vegetation are sometimes conducted in the absence of nuanced debates about key aspects of climate, land, and resource management policy. Improved insights that have significant implications for policies and management can be derived from spatial and temporal analyses of fires. Here, we demonstrate the importance of such analyses using a case study of large-scale, recurrent severe wildfires over the past two decades in the Australia

SUBMITTER: Lindenmayer DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275721 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature