Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3993-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3993-2024
Model description paper
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16 May 2024
Model description paper |  | 16 May 2024

A global behavioural model of human fire use and management: WHAM! v1.0

Oliver Perkins, Matthew Kasoar, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Cathy Smith, Jay Mistry, and James D. A. Millington

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Wildfire is often presented in the media as a danger to human life. Yet globally, millions of people’s livelihoods depend on using fire as a tool. So, patterns of fire emerge from interactions between humans, land use, and climate. This complexity means scientists cannot yet reliably say how fire will be impacted by climate change. So, we developed a new model that represents globally how people use and manage fire. The model reveals the extent and diversity of how humans live with and use fire.