Mediterranean landscapes are in a state of flux due to the impacts of changing land‐use
patterns and climate. Fuel–weather interactions determine that large, severe wildfires are …

Like all species, humans have exercised their impulse to perpetuate and propagate
themselves. In doing so, we have domesticated landscapes and ecosystems in ways that …

Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth's surface and atmosphere for over
350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet …

Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler
colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest …

As a nation, we lack a sustained commitment to disaster risk reduction in both our policies
and actions. 6 At present, the nation's disaster policies are reactive and myopic …

The fundamental properties of organisms—what they are, how and where they live, and the
biotic and abiotic interactions that link them to communities and ecosystems—are the …

Current US forest fire policy emphasizes short‐term outcomes versus long‐term goals. This
perspective drives managers to focus on the protection of high‐valued resources, whether …

Theory suggests that natural fire regimes can result in landscapes that are both self‐
regulating and resilient to fire. For example, because fires consume fuel, they may create …

Extreme wildfires are a major environmental and socioeconomic threat across many regions
worldwide. The limits of fire suppression-centred strategies have become evident even in …

Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be
characterized as a socioecological “pathology”: that is, a set of complex and problematic …