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Explaining the variable performance of fire management interventions: field season begins
The field season has begun for the research led by CIFOR Postdoctoral Fellow Rachel Carmenta, conducted in collaboration with UK based universities and a team of students and scientists from…
100s of scientists come together on the status of contemporary peatland development
CIFOR scientists, including those in the Political Economy of Fire and Haze research project joined over 100 peatland related researchers to make a collective statement affirming the state of the…
New student joins CIFOR research team to understand media discourses in coverage of peatland fires and haze
Honors student Laura Jacob-Porters (University of Melbourne) joins CIFOR post-doctoral fellow Rachel Carmenta at CIFOR to conduct research into the media coverage of the fire and haze events in Riau,…
New research on the diversity and performance of fire management interventions: First scoping trip
In the middle of June 2016, CIFOR post-doctoral researcher Rachel Carmenta, Willy Daeli (CIFOR) and Jacob Phelps (Lancaster University) visited Riau province in Indonesia to scope new research field sites.…
Perceptions data collection ends and analysis begins bringing new collaboration
Researchers Rachel Carmenta (CIFOR), Jacob Phelps (University of Lancaster) and Willy Daeli (CIFOR) in the Fire and Haze component 1 study on stakeholder perceptions of fire and haze have now…
Things to Know About the Haze in Southeast Asia
Haze from forest fires in Indonesia is choking parts of the country as well as neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. It has intensified in recent days, putting air pollution at hazardous…
On fire and haze, CIFOR’s research gains national media coverage
As fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan peaked and public attention turned to the worsening haze, CIFOR’s evidence-based perspective has been highly sought after by national media. Over the last few…
Herry Purnomo presents at Jakarta Foreign Correspondents’ Club panel on fire and haze
Herry Purnomo, CIFOR scientist leading the research on the ‘Political Economy of Fire and Haze’ joined a panel discussion on fire and haze, organized by the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club…
CIFOR’s Director General on Bloomberg TV
Peter Holmgren, CIFOR’s Director General spoke on Bloomberg TV’s ‘Trending Business’ – highlighting that prevention is more effective when it comes to solving fire and haze. Holmgren spoke about the…
