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Make Better Wildland Fire Management Decisions using Behavioural Science
One of the primary responsibilities of a wildland fire manager is to make decisions under difficult circumstances. Sound decision-making can be the difference between success and catastrophe. Wildland fire decision-makers are managing greater complexity with fewer years of experience. Conditions in the fire environment are more extreme but managers often have less expertise to draw on. How can decisions be improved under these conditions?Behavioural science is an emerging discipline that draws on psychology and economics to study how people act under uncertainty. Its findings are transforming how professionals make high consequence decisions in comparable fields. In this paper, we introduce how behavioural science can help wildland fire managers build expertise and improve decisions.