Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria applied to review the evidence on savanna-burning emissions abatement schemes in East and Southern African savanna-protected areas
PICo category | Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|---|
General | Peer-reviewed | |
Published/translated in English | ||
Indigenous and local people | Focus on socio-cultural aspects of savanna burning schemes, e.g., “indigenous,” “traditional,” or “community-based” fire management | Focus on biogeophysical properties of fire with no or limited reference to social aspects, e.g., experiment reports, vegetation assessments, satellite and remote sensing analyses, medical studies, paleo-ecological accounts |
Savanna burning emissions abatement schemes | Prescribed early dry season fires for carbon credit generation based on Northern Australian model | Other fire management strategies where fire is not actively prescribed for carbon credit generation (e.g., prescribed early dry season fires for fuel reduction, but without carbon credit aims) |
Savanna-protected areas | Savanna ecosystems: grass- and wood-dominated savannas, inclusive of Miombo Woodlands | Non-savanna ecosystem, including forests |
Protected areas as defined by IUCN I-VI (may be locally recognized) and buffer areas | Outside protected areas (IUCN I–VI) and buffer areas (including surrounding communal rangelands) | |
East and Southern Africa | Angola; Botswana; Burundi; Ethiopia; Kenya; Lesotho; Madagascar; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Rwanda; Somalia; South Africa; Swaziland/Eswatini; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe |