{"id":1466,"date":"2023-04-21T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?post_type=evenement&p=1466"},"modified":"2023-05-09T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:49:50","slug":"fire-enlightenment-emerging-paradigms-for-integrated-fire-management-policies-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-fuelled-by-biocultural-diversities-what-relationships-between-fire-management-poli","status":"publish","type":"evenement","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/agenda\/fire-enlightenment-emerging-paradigms-for-integrated-fire-management-policies-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-fuelled-by-biocultural-diversities-what-relationships-between-fire-management-poli\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire enlightenment: emerging paradigms for integrated fire management policies in Latin America and the Caribbean fuelled by biocultural diversities"},"content":{"rendered":"

What relationships between fire management policies, fire sciences and local fire practices in Latin America and the Caribbean region?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Under conditions of increasingly extreme climate changes and rapid and dramatic transformations in land use, the occurrence of wildfire mega-events of great severity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has become a critical problem, affecting local communities, populations at urban-rural interfaces, firefighters, ecosystem biodiversity and carbon sequestration capacity. Despite costly investment in human resources and high technical deployment, dominant fire suppression policies have not been sufficiently effective to control and extinguish and reduce the risks and impacts of the most severe and extensive wildfires increasing throughout the LAC region, even affecting more vulnerable ecosystems such as primary tropical rainforests and wetlands (e.g., Delta del Paran\u00e1 River, Argentina). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-developing new visions and capacities for integrated and intersectoral management of wildfires instead of just fighting them requires the inclusion of multiple perspectives and actors and rescuing the knowledge and adaptive practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities that inhabit natural spaces.  There are inspiring initiatives from which essential lessons can be learned. Challenges and barriers to overcome can be identified through collaboration, both at the regional level in LAC and in other regions that share similar challenges.  However, in LAC, we acknowledge that there are different paradigms for fire management policies regarding their relationships with interculturality, forms of implementation, collaborations and evaluation. Furthermore, co-production or co-management experiences include many problems: struggles for recognition, overcoming historical power and knowledge inequalities, organisation issues, financial restrictions, dominant rules, and technocratic processes.
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This workshop will gather members of civil and government organisations, academics and representatives of local communities from different countries. The main objective is to share different experiences and knowledge systems related to fire management in LAC to contribute to the debate on the opportunities and challenges of dialogue and learning between scientific, fire practitioners\u2019 expertise, and traditional knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n