Season 3 | Episode 3 | Good Fire Podcast

Season 3 | Episode 3 | Good Fire Podcast

From Good Fire by Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff

March 20, 2025 · 1h 5m · Season 3 · Episode 3

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The episode discusses community-based fire management and its importance in sustaining forests, featuring insights from guest Vanessa Luna-Celino.

S‍eason 3 | Episode 3 | Good Fire Podcast Title: The Social Dynamics of Fire Management with Vanessa Luna-Celino In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Vanessa Luna-Celino to talk about how community-based fire management is the way to sustaining forests. Quotes 16.20 - 16.23: “Not every person in these peasant communities interacts with fire in the same way. There are of course power relationships and power dynamics; there are different needs of fire.” 29.57 - 30.12: “Part of my research also has to do with understanding the different narratives of what to do with fire and the role of fire in the landscape and for rural wellbeing.” Takeaways Meet Vanessa Luna-Celino (02.58) Vanessa recently completed a PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology from the University of Florida. She studied biology in her hometown, Lima, Peru, and then became interested in the social dimensions of conservation. Her PhD focussed on community-based fire management in the Peruvian Andes. She points out that with climate change, wildfires have become more commonplace in Peru. But with large populations living in the Andean and coastal regions…

People in this episode

Hosts: Amy Cardinal Christianson, Matthew Kristoff

Guest: Vanessa Luna-Celino

Topics covered

  • fire management
  • community-based conservation
  • climate change
  • wildfires
  • social dynamics

Keywords

  • fire management
  • community
  • wildfires
  • Peru
  • climate change
  • ecology
  • social dimensions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Florida

Places: Peru, Andes, Lima

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