{"id":2766,"date":"2023-06-20T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:20:48","slug":"meet-our-partners-rachel-carmenta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/meet-our-partners-rachel-carmenta\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our partners: Rachel Carmenta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Meet FIRE-ADAPT\u00b4s partners\/ Conoce a los socios de FIRE-ADAPT: Rachel Carmenta (UEA)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3An_7OpIpd0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Role in FIRE-ADAPT:<\/mark> <\/strong>co-leader of the area of expertise &#8220;(inter)cultural services and human well-being&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Organisation:<\/strong><\/mark>  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tyndall.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tyndall Centre for Climate Change<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uea.ac.uk\/about\/school-of-international-development\" target=\"_blank\">School of International Development<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uea.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of East Anglia<\/a> (UEA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Country:<\/mark> <\/strong>United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>What motivated me to join FIRE-ADAPT&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most incentivising thing was knowing who else was inside, the network, and having the opportunity to work with people whose scientific work I&#8217;ve read, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/meet-our-partners-imma-oliveras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Imma Oliveras<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/meet-our-partners-bibiana-bilbao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bibiana Bilbao<\/a> and other colleagues. Also, having in the project fire managers from different contexts, I mean South American and European countries, seemed extremely unique. Finally, the possibility of networking through secondments in order to really try to connect different knowledges and understandings seemed very special and necessary given this global crisis of wildfires. So, it was the the network, the potential to connect contexts and knowledges, and the timing.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">What my area of work&nbsp; in the project pursues&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/mark> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our focus is on bringing diverse cultural knowledges together and also scientific knowledge and place-based or practitioner knowledge. It&#8217;s that connexion of knowledges which is really important to our work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next dimension that motivates our objectives is, on one side, trying to understand better and give visibility to the lived experiences of <em>quemas<\/em> (burns) or managed fire, and, on the other side, the experience of \u201cincendios\u201d or wildfires; we are interested in showing the different types of impacts of those different fires. These includes their benefits but also their burdens because, even in the managed fires, practices that have been used for many generations perhaps now require some adaptations for new realities. You know that the process can generate benefits, of course, but also can put stresses on communities, their governance and their interaction with institutions. When we&#8217;re talking about impacts, we&#8217;d want to move beyond just thinking of those on carbon, the area of forest or land burnt, or the amount of biodiversity impacted; we also want to think about the people living in those places: what the impacts are on their lives and livelihoods, the material things, their agriculture, yields, income, assets, houses, etc. but also on their own relations with each other and the non-material attributes that we all have as part of our well-being: our subjective and relational well-being and our relationship with the land, with the territory.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>How we are going to achieve our objectives&nbsp;<\/strong><\/mark> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through linking research projects that we already have ongoing that look into the questions I talked about above. For example, I&#8217;m involved in research in the Amazon, where we&#8217;re trying to understand what people are experiencing when <em>incendios<\/em> or wildfires burn through their forest, what that means for the biodiversity considering that, when we&#8217;re talking about biodiversity, we are also talking about people&#8217;s food, how families are finding difficulties to collect the different resources from the forest as a result of fire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the PhD students in our team is trying to understand what the values that communities hold are,&nbsp; the different sorts of relationships and arrangements that they have and knowledges and attachments to the land that have enabled them to scape from this sort of reality of <em>incendios<\/em> (wildfires) in their forests; what kind of factors exist in communities that help them to control the fires as well as to help them and their interactions with institutions. You could say those things are the intangible: the relationships people have with each other, the land and the institutions. We&#8217;re trying to understand what they are and to give them visibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>What strengths of the partners come together in the project<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the big benefits of FIRE-ADAPT is the access it gives to the many many case studies, contexts and realities. The fire managers in particular have got a very good knowledge of the sorts of dynamics because they are in the middle, connecting&#8230; they speak with the politicians and the policymakers, but they also work in the communities. They have a really interesting perspective because they&#8217;re like a bridge. Furthermore, they have experience in the many communities that are involved in these integrated fire management strategies. That is a real benefit, especially for this more human dimension side.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We researchers bring in our existing research projects to then try to do new research in some of these places where we can also have the opportunity to hear what the priorities of the fire managers are. Then, we can try to make sure our research is delivering to those relevant questions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The natural scientists are going to generate and share a great amount of data,&nbsp; which is going to be fantastic resource, and we&#8217;ll be working to bring in social sciences and interdisciplinary thinking more.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#567f3e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>This is me<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e6613d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Favourite food:<\/mark><\/strong> apple crumble&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e6613d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Favourite film:<\/mark> <\/strong>The Piano, by Jane Campion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e6613d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Favourite music:<\/mark> <\/strong>world music, specially Brazilian music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e6613d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I admire:<\/mark><\/strong> Frances Seymour, who was the Director General of CIFOR when I worked there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e6613d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Superpower I\u00b4d like to have:<\/mark><\/strong> fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e6613d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">In France, I\u00b4d take you to:<\/mark> <\/strong>the Fendlands in Norfolk, which are beautiful because they have a lot of history to them. Also, a lot of knowledge on how to collect the different grasses, weave them, and fish in them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role in FIRE-ADAPT: co-leader of the area of expertise &#8220;(inter)cultural services and human well-being&#8221; Organisation: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change and School of International Development, University of East Anglia (UEA) Country: United Kingdom What motivated me to join FIRE-ADAPT&nbsp;&nbsp; The most incentivising thing was knowing who else was inside, the network, and having the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}