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.