Collaborative Research: Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Wildland Fire Science and Management in Semi-Arid Regions

近几十年来，全球半干旱地区越来越多地受到野火的困扰，野火的规模、频率和严重程度都急剧增加。气候变化、人口密度的增长，以及多年来强调灭火的生态管理，导致了日益严重的野火，其对附近人类、动物和其他生态系统的安全和福祉造成灾难性变化的风险达到了前所未有的水平。为了解决这些问题，野火科学对探索火灾管理的新方法重新产生了兴趣，包括考虑多机构，私人和公共，甚至州，联邦和部落合作的方法，以解决如何最好地与野火共存。该项目制定了计划，以推进加利福尼亚的Payahuunadü /欧文斯谷和东塞拉地区的野火研究、科学和管理。这些活动将区域利益相关者、学者和实践者聚集在一起，共同制定一个结合土著知识系统、自然科学和社会科学的行动框架，以评估野火的原因、影响和管理技术。该团队借鉴了过去在多个选区建立关系的工作，以解决基于社区和自然的火灾研究目标和管理措施。该获奖研究项目开发了一种不同的方法，用于规划在灾难性野火风险地区工作和生活的不同利益相关者社区的野火科学研究和管理。通过研讨会、集体起草练习和对相关火灾管理方案的实地考察，该项目汇集了由部落领导人、土著知识守护者、火灾科学生态学家、政府代理人员和社会科学家组成的多元化团队，通过合作伙伴关系制定行动计划，将土著火灾科学和管理实践与自然科学野火研究建模和数据分析相结合。该项目测试了共同管理计划的有效性，以应对不同利益相关者面临的野火风险，这些利益相关者在生态系统、人口和行业中都有共同利益。此外，它还提供了一个与部落、州和联邦政府间更广泛的伙伴关系有关的协作、协商和合作的最佳实践模式。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In recent decades, semi-arid regions around the globe have been increasingly beset by wildland fires that have grown dramatically in their size, frequency, and severity. A combination of climate change, growth in human population density, and years of ecological management emphasizing fire suppression, have resulted in increasingly intensive wildfires whose risks of catastrophic change to the safety and wellbeing of nearby human, animal and other ecologies now reach unprecedented levels. In an effort to address these issues, wildland fire science has taken a renewed interest in exploring novel approaches to fire management, including approaches that consider multi-agency, private and public, and even state, federal and tribal partnerships to address how best to live with wildfire. This project develops plans to advance wildland fire research science and management in the Payahuunadü / Owens Valley & Eastern Sierra region of California. Activities bring together regional stakeholders, scholars, and practitioners to collaborate on an action framework combining Indigenous knowledge systems, natural sciences, and the social sciences, to assess wildfire causes, effects, and management techniques. The team draws on past work building relationships across multiple constituencies to address community- and nature-based fire research aims and management measures.The awarded research project develops a different approach to planning wildfire science research and management across diverse stakeholder communities working and living in regions at risk for catastrophic wildfire. In workshops, collective drafting exercises, and site visits to related fire management programs, the project brings together a diverse team of tribal leaders, Indigenous knowledge keepers, fire science ecologists, government agents and social scientists on plans of action built through and for collaborative partnerships that integrate Indigenous fire science and management practices with natural science wildfire research modeling and data analysis. The project tests the efficacy of co-management plans for addressing wildfire risks faced by diverse stakeholders with interests in the ecosystems, populations, and industries they share. Additionally, it offers a model of best practices for collaboration, consultation, and cooperation relevant to Tribal, State and Federal government-to-government partnerships more generally.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.