PROGRAMME
May 13 – From Integrated Fire Management to Equitable Fire Management
13 May – 4 PM CEST
In person: Castello del Valentino Torino – Sala Vigliano
Online: https://polito-it.zoom.us/j/82175800881
Speakers:
- Professor JAY MISTRY Royal Holloway University
- Professor KATE SCHRECKENBERG King’s College
Discussants:
- Professor LORENZA FONTANA University of Turin
- IOANNA CHATZIKONSTANTINOU PhD Student at POLITO
Integrated Fire Management (IFM) is an approach that combines fire prevention, response and recovery with ecological, socio-economic and cultural factors into fire management strategies. It is a concept that is now entering both national and international policy, as seen in 2024 with Brazil’s National Policy for Integrated Fire Management and in 2025 with the G7 Summit Kananaskis Wildfire Charter and the Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and Wildfire Resilience during the COP30 Belém Climate Summit. While the importance of local fire-dependent livelihoods, traditional fire use and knowledge and the participation and empowerment of local actors within IFM initiatives is acknowledged in these documents, less discussed are the justice issues, power dynamics and trade-offs between different stakeholders and rightsholders and different IFM objectives. In this presentation, we will outline dimensions of equity and justice that need to be considered in IFM using case study examples to illustrate how they play out and are interlinked in practice. We will propose a set of guiding principles for IFM practitioners and policymakers for incorporating equity and justice dimensions into any IFM policy and institutional process.
May 20 – Smoldering: A Comic to Explore Fire Governance
20 May – 4.15 PM CEST
In person: Castello del Valentino Torino – Sala Vigliano
Online: https://polito-it.zoom.us/j/83527680800
Speaker:
- Ph.D SOFYAN ANSORI IFAR UIII/Universitas Indonesia
Discussants:
- Professor ALICE SCAVARDA University of Turin
- Ph.D NICOLA MANGHI University of Turin
Set in Central Kalimantan (Indonesia) during the dry season, Smoldering explores the friendship between Elin and Bunga, two high school girls navigating adolescence.
Elin, a Dayak girl, aspires to leave her village and pursue her dreams. Conversely, for Bunga, who has recently moved from Bandung, the village is a new home she is trying to make sense of. As the weather gets drier, Bunga and Elin experience the heat at the fire frontier where ideas, myths, feelings, and practices pertaining to flaming landscape collide and overlap.
Based on ethnographic research, Smoldering engages with the multifaceted fire governance at the village level, depicting the everyday realities amid burning forests, declining livelihoods, and devastating fire policies.
May 26 – Understanding Fire Governance: Evolution and Practical Assessment Tools
26 May – 3 PM CEST
In person: Castello del Valentino Torino – Sala Zodiaco
Online: https://polito-it.zoom.us/j/86952452541
Speaker:
- Ph.D PETER MOORE
Director of NRFC
Former Forestry Officer Fire Management at FAO
Discussant:
- Ph.D ALESSANDRO TINTI University of Turin
An introduction on the Guide for Governance Assessment of Integrated Fire Management, offering a broader perspective on how the concept and approaches to fire governance have evolved over time.
Peter will describe the sequence of steps, and miss-steps, that have resulted in his interest in fire management governance. From the beginning where initial research was with expert systems (early AI) but identifying that the issues would not be solved by that and in seeking to answer a question recognising some important elements and collecting some skills that remain useful. Then the documentation and description of Community Based Fire Management (CBFiM), which requires some real degree of community empowerment also identified the core needs for engagement, participation and process. Involvement in improving the understanding of fire management and the developing characterisation of Integrated Fire Management (IFM) was the middle period and brought with it the need to ‘integrate’ multiple (all) perspectives, views and actors. Engagement with FAO Governance and Policy normative work was the late middle of creating a governance groupie. This was followed by some very useful documentation – Integrated fire management voluntary guidelines: Principles and strategic actions and the – Landscape Fire Governance Framework. These two, and some of those involved with them, through the Global Fire Management Hub, led to the work to prepare the Guide to IFM Governance Assessment that is in the process of publication and will be briefly described.
