Posted by Ted Feldpausch
2 November 2021The Workshop held by the University of Exeter, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and University of Mato Grosso State (UNEMAT) will be held online (synchronous) with offline (asynchronous) content also being produced. The event is free of charge and will take place between 8 and 11 November 2021 through the Google Meet platform. The registration will occur through Google Forms (available here).
It will have as its target audience students, brigadistas (voluntary or formalized), firefighters, managers of conservation areas, civil defense, educators, academics from all areas, and traditional communities) and rural producers, NGOs and representatives of organizations and companies from all sectors that identify the emergency of the theme and potential solutions associated with it.
The Workshop aims at presenting the state of the art of science in knowledge about fire and its use by populations at different times of occupation of the Amazon and reflecting on current environmental changes, their relationship to the risk and impacts of forest fires and thinking about prevention strategies.
Registration is open until the 4th of November 2021.
This Workshop is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC project NE/N011570/1), CAPES – Ciência Sem Fronteiras, and is supported by the researchers of the MAP-Fire project (IAI, project number SGP-HW 016, @mapfire.project,) and Brigadas da Amazônia (WWF). For more information: Contact: mapfire.sa@gmail.com or Ted Feldpausch.