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

合作研究：规划：FIRE-PLAN：半干旱地区荒地火灾科学与管理

• 批准号: 2332227
• 负责人: Carol Blanchette
• 金额: $ 0.59万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332227&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Planning; FIRE; PLAN

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.

近几十年来，地球仪周围的半干旱地区越来越受到野火的困扰，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相结合，导致野火越来越密集，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现在达到了前所未有的水平。为了解决这些问题，野火科学重新对探索火灾管理的新方法产生了兴趣，包括考虑多机构，私人和公共，甚至州，联邦和部落伙伴关系的方法，以解决如何最好地与野火共存。该项目制定了推进加州Payahuunadu/ Owens Valley Eastern Sierra地区野火研究科学和管理的计划。这些活动将区域利益攸关方、学者和从业人员聚集在一起，合作制定一个行动框架，将土著知识体系、自然科学和社会科学结合起来，评估野火的原因、影响和管理技术。该团队利用过去的工作，在多个选区建立关系，以解决社区和自然为基础的火灾研究目标和管理措施。获奖的研究项目开发了一种不同的方法来规划野火科学研究和管理，跨不同的利益相关者社区工作和生活在灾难性野火的风险地区。在研讨会上，集体起草练习，以及对相关火灾管理计划的实地考察中，该项目汇集了部落领导人，土著知识保管者，消防科学生态学家，政府代理人和社会科学家的多元化团队，通过合作伙伴关系建立行动计划，将土著消防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，以解决不同利益相关者所面临的野火风险，这些利益相关者对他们共享的生态系统，人口和行业感兴趣。此外，它还为部落、州和联邦政府间的合作伙伴关系提供了最佳协作、咨询和合作的范例。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。