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Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests

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By Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction In recent decades, research in fire ecology and indigenous fire knowledge has challenged the anti-fire paradigm in fire management. This work has highlighted the ecological role played by fire in open ecosystems, which are often misrecognised by the state as degraded forests, and its central role in the livelihoods and cultural practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (Bond 2019; Bond and Parr 2010; Hoffman et al. 2021; Mistry et al. 2016).
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When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Fire, Plantation Logics, and Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya

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By Kapil Yadav
| Taylor & Francis Online
Abstract This study examines forest fires in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand by shifting attention from ignitions to the historical production of flammable landscapes. It situates contemporary fire regimes within longer histories of landscape transformation and everyday forest use.
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The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter: a good start

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By Kapil Yadav, Abigail Croker, Adriana Ford, William Hayes Verified, Yiannis Kountouris, James Millington, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Ol Perkins, Kate Schreckenberg, Cathy Smith, Monika Moreu Vicente, Maximilian Stiefel
| Nature Verified
The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter marks an important step toward addressing increasingly extreme wildfires. Attending to complex drivers, supporting Indigenous and local fire stewardship, and shifting toward integrated fire management will help ensure equitable, effective, and ecologically grounded governance and management. References Schmidt, I. B. & Eloy, L. Fire regime in the Brazilian savanna: recent changes, policy and management. Flora 268, 151613 (2020). Google Scholar Pausas, J. G.
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