Catherine Smith
Research Fellow · Political Ecology
Royal Holloway, University of LondonAbout
Dr. Catherine Smith is Research Fellow at Royal Holloway's Department of Geography, affiliated with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. Her research examines human-fire relationships through political ecology frameworks.
Research focuses on fire management practices in Belize and Guyana, investigating colonial legacies in savanna fire policies and agricultural fire use. Current projects develop global models of human-fire interactions and collaborate with Indigenous communities to decolonize fire science approaches.
Projects: Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires (2019-2029), Human fire use in landscape management (2023-2024). Actively organizes workshops on decolonizing fire science methodologies.
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