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    Working on Fire deployment statistics 2023

    Number of fires attended to and resources deployed by Working on Fire in South Africa during 2023

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    Working on Fire deployment statistics 2022

    Number of fires attended to and resources deployed by Working on Fire in South Africa during 2022

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    Working on Fire deployment statistics 2015 to 2021

    Number of fires attended to by Working on Fire & hectares burnt in South Africa and per province 2015 - 2021

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    Social drivers of vulnerability to wildfire disasters: A review of the literature

    Landscape and Urban Planning

    - Nicole Lambrou (a)
    – Crystal Kolden (b)
    – Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (c)
    – Erica Anjum (d)
    – Charisma Acey (d)


    –University of California

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    Understanding Climate Change

    Climate does not change from day to day like weather, but it does change over time. The study of historic climate change is called paleoclimatology.

    - Tracey Carter

    -Working on Fire
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    Community-Based Fire Management in East and Southern African Savanna-Protected Areas: A Review of the Published Evidence

    The introduction of fire suppression policies and expansion of exclusionary protected areas (PAs) in East and Southern African (ESA) savannas have engendered a wildfire paradox.

    - Abigail Rose Croker, Jeremy Woods, and Ioannis Kountouris

    -Imperial College London
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    Fire Management in Africa

    Working on Fire Climate Change Webinar – “Wildfires under climate change: a burning issue”

    - Sally Archibald
    - University of the Witwatersrand
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    Working on Fire Response at Major Disaster Fires

    Working on Fire - Major Fire Statistics
    - Knysna Fires 2017
    - George Fires 2018
    - Overstrand Fires 2019
    - Free State Fires 2020
    - Northern Cape Fires 2021
    - Table Mountain Fires 2021
    - Kleinmond Fires 2022
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    Factors Influencing Wildfire Outcomes and Management Actions

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    Working on Fire’s Managing Director Trevor Abrahams presents at the International Association of Wildland Fire's (IAWF) Fire & Climate 2022 Conference

    Working on Fire Media Release
    - Trevor Abrahams
    - Managing Director: Working on Fire
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    The spatial and temporal variability of fires in South Africa

    Working on Fire Climate Change Webinar – “Wildfires under climate change: a burning issue”
    - Sheldon Strydom
    - North-West University
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    Wildfires under climate change

    UN Environment Programme Frontiers 2022 Report

    Andrew Dowdy
    Luke Purcell
    Sarah Boulter
    Livia Carvalho Moura
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    Wildland Urban Interface of the City of Cape Town 1990–2019

    Geographical Research

    - Sven Christ
    - Nina Schwarz
    - Richard Sliuzas

    - PGM Department, ITC Faculty, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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    Wildfires under climate change: A burning issue

    Webinar

    - Working on Fire
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    Climate Change and Fires

    Op-Ed - City Press – “Sunday, 20 March 2022”

    - Trevor Abrahams: Managing Director: Working on Fire
    - Working on Fire
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    Lessons learnt: Stakeholder knowledge and the evolution of fire management policies in North East Namibia

    Working on Fire Climate Change Webinar – “Wildfires under climate change: a burning issue”

    - Dr Glynis Humphrey
    - University of Cape Town
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