Understanding fire conflict through stakeholder mapping in Madagascar's grassy Biomes

This dataset contains fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) data examining
stakeholder perspectives on landscape fire drivers in Madagascar's
Ambatofinandrahana district. The data were collected through 28 focus
groups (n = 133 participants) conducted in April-May 2023 across five
stakeholder groups: government officials, conservation practitioners,
community leaders, rural farmers, and rural herders. Participants
collectively identified variables influencing landscape fires and mapped
causal relationships between them, assigning directional connections and
strength ratings (1-4 scale). The repository includes: (1) an aggregated
stakeholder matrix consolidating all 28 focus group maps; (2) five
stakeholder-level aggregated matrices used for hierarchical clustering
analysis; (3) a consolidated variable list documenting how 200+ original
variables were condensed into 36 analytical categories;
(4) network metric summary tables for variables including Katz
centrality scores, in-degree, out-degree, OD/ID ratios;
(5) variable-to-variable relationship data for each stakeholder
group. These data support the findings reported in Convery-Fisher et al.,
"Understanding Fire Conflict Through Stakeholder Mapping in
Madagascar's Grassy Biomes," published in People and Nature.