UNISDR GLOBAL WILDLAND FIRE NETWORK (GWFN)

Publications about and from the Global Wildland Fire Network / Regional Wildland Fire Networks

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Recent Publication (2019, 2023)

The volume “Towards Fire-smart Landscapes” was developed in 2021-2022 by Tropenbos and GFMC (N. Pasiecznik and J.G. Goldammer, eds.), with contributions of ca. 100 co-authors from tropical South America, Asia and Africa. The book was presented at UNFCCC COP-26 (Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 12 November 2022), at the Global Landscapes Forum, Session “Fire-smart landscapes as promising approach for effective adaptation and mitigation.

• Pasiecznik, N. and J.G. Goldammer (eds.) 2022. Towards Fire-smart Landscapes. Tropical Forest Issues (TFI 61), 191 p. (PDF, 15 MB)

• Special Issue of Fire Management Today: Global Landscape Fire Management Challenges – A Decade of Progress (U.S. Forest Service: 2019) (PDF, 3.6 MB)

Major Global Fire Analyses

• Vegetation Fires and Global Change: Challenges for Concerted International Action. A White Paper directed to the United Nations and International Organizations (2013)
• Migration and Global Environmental Change: SR10: Specification for a state of science review – wildland fires by Johann Georg Goldammer and Brian J. Stocks on behalf of the Team of Authors of the ‘White Paper on Vegetation Fires and Global Change“ (PDF, 0.3 MB)

Recent Essays and Reviews of Global Outreach

• Putting a Break on Wildfire (ITTO Tropical Forest Update 24 No. 2, August 2015, web version) (PDF, 2.5 MB)
• Local Fires, Global Worries (Wildfire Magazine Vol. 25, January-February 2016) (PDF, 5.0 MB)
• Global Vegetation Fire Challenges and Outlook (Commonwealth Forestry Association Newsletter No. 74, September 2016) (PDF, 0.6 MB)
• The Global Wildland Fire Network: 2016 in Review (Wildfire Magazine Vol. 25, November-December 2016 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Eastern Fires – Western Smoke (Wildfire Magazine Vol. 26, January-February 2017 (PDF, 1.7 MB)

About the Global Wildland Fire Network

• International Wildland Fire Summit 2003 (Special Issue of IFFN: No. 29)
• The UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network, with reports from the regional networks (Special Issue of IFFN: No. 31)
• Results of the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference 2007 (Special Issue of IFFN: No. 36)
• Vegetation Fires and the Earth System: Trends and Needs for Action (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study – ILEAPS 3/2007) (PDF, 0.5 MB)
• Wildland Fires: Creeping and Sudden Disasters – Part I (J. Crisis Response Vol. 3-4, 2007) (PDF, 0.7 MB)
• Special Issue of Fire Management Today: International Fire Management – Part 1 (U.S. Forest Service: 2008) (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Special Issue of Fire Management Today: International Fire Management – Part 2 (U.S. Forest Service: 2008) (PDF, 0.9 MB)
• Special Issue of Fire Management Today: Global Landscape Fire Management Challenges – A Decade of Progress (U.S. Forest Service: 2019) (PDF, 3.6 MB)

Additional publications from the Regional Wildland Fire Networks

• Baltic: Prescribed Burning in Northwest Europe and the Baltic Region(Special Issue of IFFN: No. 30)
• Baltic: Russian Federation (Special Issue of IFFN: No. 32)
• SE Europe / Balkans / Eastern Mediterranean (Special Issue of IFFN: No. 33)
• Reports from Europe (Portugal, UK), Asia (Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Thailand) (Special Issue of IFFN: No. 34)
• América Latina y el Caribe: Estrategia Regional de Cooperación para el Manejo del Fuego (Edición Especial de IFFN: No. 35)
• Wildland Fires – Part II: Regional Focus on Southeast Europe / Caucasus (J. Crisis Response Vol. 4-1, 2007) (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part III: Regional Focus on Northeast Asia (J. Crisis Response Vol. 4-2, 2007) (PDF, 0.4 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part IV: Regional Focus on South Asia (J. Crisis Response Vol. 4-3, 2008) (PDF, 0.7 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part V: Regional Focus on Central Asia (J. Crisis Response Vol. 4-4, 2008) (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part VI: Wildland Fires – Subsahara Africa (J. Crisis Response Vol. 5-1, 2008) (PDF, 0.5 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part VII: Wildland Fires – Baltic Region (J. Crisis Response Vol. 5-2, 2009) (PDF, 0.9 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part VIII: Wildland Fires – Mediterranean-I (J. Crisis Response Vol. 5-3, 2009) (PDF, 0.5 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part IX: Wildland Fires – Mediterranean-II (J. Crisis Response Vol. 5-4, 2009) (PDF, 0.5 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part X: Wildland Fires – South America (J. Crisis Response Vol. 6-1, 2009) (PDF, 0.7 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part XI: Wildland Fires – Caribbean (J. Crisis Response Vol. 6-3, 2010) (PDF, 0.6 MB)

• Wildland Fires – Part XII: Wildfires in the Euro-Alpine Region (J. Crisis Response Vol. 6-4, 2011) (PDF, 0.7 MB)

• Wildland Fires – Part XIII: Fire Management in Central America (J. Crisis Response Vol. 7-1, 2011) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part XIV: Wildfires in Australia (J. Crisis Response Vol. 7-2, 2011) (PDF, 0.6 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part XV: Forest fire management in New Zealand: Shaping the future (J. Crisis Response Vol. 7-3, 2011) (PDF, 0.3 MB)
• Wildland Fires – Part XVI: Wildfires: North America. Exchanging ideas and experience (J. Crisis Response Vol. 7-4, 2012) (PDF, 0.5 MB)

Poster Presentations of the Global Wildland Fire Network

• Global Wildland Fire Network Posters at the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference 2007
• Global Wildland Fire Network Posters at the 5th International Wildland Fire Conference 2011
• Global Wildland Fire Network Posters at the 6th International Wildland Fire Conference 2015
• Global Wildland Fire Network Posters at the 7th International Wildland Fire Conference 2019

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