TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic drivers of global fire activity
T2 - A critical review using the DPSIR framework
AU - Kim, Yeon Su
AU - Rodrigues, Marcos
AU - Robinne, François Nicolas
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the participants to the Fire$ Task Force, International Union of Forest Research Organization (https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/global-wildland-fire-activity/) for their early inputs that shaped the outline of this paper. We also thank Peter Z. Ful? for his inputs and copy-editing.
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© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Overall decline of global burned area paradoxically hides a number of economic realities that have increased the likelihood and costs of wildfire-caused disasters. In this critical review, we address the pressing need to identify and incorporate economic elements shaping global wildfire activities. To synthesize our current understanding of economic drivers of wildfires, we leverage the DPSIR framework to structure the issues related to wildfires to establish coherent causal pathways between Drivers (D), Pressures (P), States (S), Impacts (I) and Responses (R). 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, such as “Virtual wildfire trade” accounting to monitor delocalized fire activity—exported fires and land transformation from developed to developing regions with weak governance. 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.
AB - Overall decline of global burned area paradoxically hides a number of economic realities that have increased the likelihood and costs of wildfire-caused disasters. In this critical review, we address the pressing need to identify and incorporate economic elements shaping global wildfire activities. To synthesize our current understanding of economic drivers of wildfires, we leverage the DPSIR framework to structure the issues related to wildfires to establish coherent causal pathways between Drivers (D), Pressures (P), States (S), Impacts (I) and Responses (R). 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, such as “Virtual wildfire trade” accounting to monitor delocalized fire activity—exported fires and land transformation from developed to developing regions with weak governance. 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.
KW - Altered fire regimes
KW - Disaster risk reduction
KW - Global economy
KW - Teleconnections
KW - Virtual wildfire trade
KW - Wildfire economics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102563
DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102563
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85111818893
SN - 1389-9341
VL - 131
JO - Forest Policy and Economics
JF - Forest Policy and Economics
M1 - 102563
ER -