FIRES
Interdisciplinary Research on Ecosystem Services:
Fire and Climate Change in UK Moorlands and Heaths

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Welcome

A series of four FIRES seminars and workshops on the effects of moorland and heathland wildfires and managed fires on ecosystem services will be held during 2008-2009. The first seminar took place in Edinburgh 31 March - 1 April 2008. The second will be held in Manchester on 24 June 2008. Seminars three and four will take place in Manchester and in the Peak District, respectively, during 2009.

• Download a leaflet on the seminar series (PDF, 895KB).

Sponsors

• ERSC
• NERC
• Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Scottish Natural Heritage

Cooperating Institutions

• Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC)

Steering group

• Julia McMorrow, University of Manchester;
• Colin Legg, University of Edinburgh;
• Jonathan Aylen, University of Manchester;
• Jon Walker, Moors for the Future;
• Klaus Hubacek, University of Leeds, Sustainability Research Institute;
• Claire Quinn, University of Leeds, Sustainability Research Institute;
• Simon Thorp, Heather Trust;
• Mark Jones, Chief Fire Officers' Association;
• Gina Cavan, University of Manchester.

• Coordinated by: University of Manchester.

ESRC/NERC Transdisciplinary Research Seminars
Coordinated by the University of Manchester