Economic drivers of global fire activity: A critical review
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The special issue on Fire$: Economics and policy of global fire activities in the journal Forest Policy and Economics, was organized as part of the Task Force initiative of the International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO). The special issue endeavored to provide specific and practical economic guidelines that help deal with the wicked problem of managing wildland fire risks with much needed insights from the global South. We present the critical review of economic drivers of global fire activities with the key insights from other papers in the special issue. Overall decline of global burned area paradoxically hides a number of economic realities that have increased the likelihood and costs of wildfire-caused disasters. We identified global patterns of worsening wildfire risks with the double-exposure to globalization and climate change. Current developments call for a paradigm shift in how we understand and manage wildfires to promote an adaptation-mitigation-resilience strategy. We propose expanding the science-policy interface to global scale with new indicators for assessing and communicating the impacts of global economic drivers on wildfire activities. We also identified the areas where research is lacking, highlighting future research areas in wildfire economics to advance effective, efficient, and equitable global governance of wildfires.
Keywords: Wildfire economics; Disaster risk reduction; Altered fire regimes; Teleconnections; Global economy
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