Description
Invited member of former Best Practice Burning Group from 2013 to 2015, providing evidence of relevant research on wildfire. The group advised Defra/Natural England on prescribed burning as a land management tool, notably for Heather and Grass Burning Regulations. Associate member of the Group’s successor, the Uplands Management Group, which was set up in 2015. It has a wider remit in providing practitioner input to Defra’s Uplands Stakeholder Forum on matters such as upland ecological restoration and resilience.| Period | 2013 → … |
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| Held at | Uplands Management Group (formerly Best Practice Burning Group), United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
Keywords
- wildfire management
- wildfire prevention
- ecological restoration
- prescribed fire
- stakeholder engagement
Documents & Links
Related content
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Projects
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Knowledge for Wildfire
Project: Research
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Research output
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The peatland vegetation burning debate: keep scientific critique in perspective. A response to Brown et al. and Douglas et al.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding fire intensity and severity: implications for managing wildfire and prescribed fire.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Spectral monitoring of moorland plant phenology to identify a temporal window for hyperspectral remote sensing of peatland
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Empirical modelling of vegetation abundance from airborne hyperspectral data for upland peatland restoration monitoring
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of fire in U.K. peatland and moorland management; the need for informed, unbiased debate
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Informed debate on the use of fire for peatland management means acknowledging the complexity of socio-ecological systems
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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wildfire@manchester - Understanding fire intensity and severity, John Dold
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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wildfire@manchester - Wildfire carbon budgets, G Matt Davies
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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FIRES1, The role of managed fire in ecosystem services of UK moorlands and heaths
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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wildfire@manchester - Wildfire Policy and Fire Ecology In the USA, Prof Brian Oswald
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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Impacts
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Policy Support for Wildfire Management and Contingency Planning in the United Kingdom
Impact: Environmental impacts, Legal impacts, Societal impacts, Technological impacts