PhD title: “Following the light: using ‘brightspots’ to prevent future Amazonian fires”

Grania is a PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia, working on the project “Following the light: using ‘brightspots’ to prevent future Amazonian fires” with the support of the SeNSS-ARIES multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Programme. Combining “top-down” geospatial methods and “bottom-up” ethnographic methods, the project will seek to identify “brightspots,” areas of the Amazon Rainforest that display unusual resilience to the increasing problem of destructive tropical fire, and exploring the social, cultural, and land management conditions that give rise to the fire-success stories in these places.