We introduce GlobalRx, a dataset including 204,517 RxB records from 1979-2023, covering 16 countries and 209 terrestrial ecoregions. For each record, we add a comprehensive suite of meteorological variables that are regularly used in RxB prescriptions by fire management agencies, such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed. We also characterise the environmental setting of each RxB, such as land cover and protected area status.

This review explores Integrated Fire Management as both an adaptation and mitigation strategy for altered fire regimes. It provides an overview of the progress and challenges associated with implementing Integrated Fire Management across different regions worldwide. The review also proposes five core objectives and outlines a roadmap of incremental steps for advancing Integrated Fire Management as a strategy to adapt to ongoing and future changes in fire regimes, thereby maximizing its potential to benefit both people and nature.

Part 1 linked here, bid for Part 2 linked here.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) commissioned the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to identify and characterise a set of baseline archetypes that are representative of current rural land-use and land-management in England and each of the devolved administrations. This work represents the first part of the CCC’s wider project on Archetypes for transforming rural UK land-use to high-carbon, climate resilient, nature rich and economically productive systems.

Adam Smith (Tyndall Centre, UEA) and Dr. Matt Jones put together a successful proposal for a bid by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to put together a landscape analysis on fire and fire management in Southern Europe.