Belief Network: fire management in African savanna-protected areas under future socioeconomic-climate change

Database for SAV Belief Network developed to model the effects of alternative fire management approaches in East African savanna-protected areas on multiple system variables under future socioeconomic-climate change, identifying opportunities and challenges for reducing wildfires and increasing long-term savanna health inside protected areas, and strengthening local resilience across broader conservation landscapes.SAV BN is currently parameterised to represent a semi-arid to mesic (750-1500mm MAP) African savanna conservation landscape, based on conditional independence assumptions for known (or identified) variables up to 2100. Model parameters can be locally modified (i.e., alteration of a specific node or direct interaction) to represent more arid African savannas (&lt;750mm MAP), or restructured and revised to represent savannas across similar geographical contexts worldwide. This database provides: (i) detailed node descriptions (incl. location), (ii) direct cause-and-effect interactions between nodes, (iii) full socioeconomic-climate scenarios, (iv) full fire management scenarios, and (v) detailed descriptions for policy and management intervention measures (input nodes).SAV BN was developed for Abigail R. Croker's PhD research. See Thesis (ref. pending) for more information. <br>