Understanding fire resilient landscapes across science and practice

Wildfires are a natural ecological process, but in recent decades extreme wildfire events have been increasing around the world, with associated negative consequences. Concurrently, years of wildfire suppression policies have left many ecosystems in a fire deficit, also resulting in negative environmental consequences. 
This thesis looks towards the concept of fire resilient landscapes as a contributing solution to the current wildfire crisis. In this research, the need for fire resilient landscapes is outlined by exploring suffering linked both with extreme wildfires, but also with a lack of fire. This research then provides a holistic definition of fire resilient landscapes from a socio-ecological perspective, and explores the application of this definition with two case studies from Spain and the Netherlands. Finally, two methodologies are utilised to assess specific case study sites across the Americas and Europe in terms of their fire resilience.