This review is guided by the Project FireFight South East Asia (PFFSEA), with the aim to document successful community experiences with forest fires and analyse those political, institutional, economic and cultural elements that enable local communities to actively engage in preventing uncontrolled burning. The use of fires to clear land...
The cases studies mention the role of fire as a disturbance played and continue to play, a major role in forest ecosystems throughout the world. This view often encourages fire and forest management institutions to perceive local communities as part of the problem, and certainly not part of the solution....