摘要：Fire in the forested tropics has profound environmental, economic, and social impacts atmultiple geographical scales. Causes of tropical fires are widely documented, although researchcontributions are from many disciplines, and each tends to focus on specific facets of a research problem,which might limit understanding of fire as a complex social-ecological system. We conducted a systematicreview to (1) examine geographic and methodological focus in tropical fire research; (2) identify whichtypes of landholders are the focus of the research effort; (3) test for a research method effect on the variables,e.g., socio-political, economic, and climatic, identified as causes of and proposed management solutionsto tropical fire; and (4) examine relationships between causal factors and proposed solutions. Results from51 studies show distinct geographic and methodological tendencies in the literature. Few studies explicitlyidentify landholder types, and no social studies focused on large-landholders. Multiple drivers and potentialsolutions to preventing fire are identified and the research approach adopted had the strongest influenceon the socioeconomic, direct fire management and landscape characteristics variables. There was an overallmismatch between identified cause and proposed management solution. These findings indicate that mixedmethod approaches are imperative to understanding the coupled human-nature system of fire and to improverural development and management strategies to curtail tropical fire spread
