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Indoneseia

Malaysia

Focus Areas

• Fire proliferation patterns around smallholder agriculturalists and agro-industiral plantations in Indonesia, and thus assessment of efficacy and appropriateness of Indonesian fire management schemes (a multi-institutional research collaboration) 

Current & Future Research

• Spatio-temporal evolution of fire recurrence in Borneo during period of agro-industrial landscape transformation and landholder resettlement (1982-2010)

• Anomalously intense fire activity in Sumatra, Indonesia and the role of smallholders vs. agro-industrial concessionaires

Previous Research

The proliferation and implications of landscape burning are changing as landscapes are reshaped by modern economic forces.  This research theme tracks fire activity coincident with landscape modification to reveal the roles of different landholders, their changing collective footprint, and strategies for sustainable landscape management.