Wildfires are intensifying globally, demanding interdisciplinary approaches that integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of fire research. This thesis addressed this need through a holistic framework that examines wildfire impacts and post-fire recovery in Greece, a region highly prone to recurrent wildfires. The aim was to advance understanding of post-fire response, vegetation recovery and restoration, and wildfire risk through an Integrated Fire Management lens, using socio-ecological and geospatial perspectives.

Stakeholder views on post-fire management were explored through Q-methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to examine subjectivity. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 22 participants involved in wildfire management spanning 10 affiliations were conducted. From these interviews, 376 statements were extracted, of which 44 were selected for a Q study. Six distinct discourses were identified: Statist, Abstainer, Beneficiary, Pragmatist, Revolutionary, and Contextualist, revealing contrasting but complementary perspectives and highlighting communication gaps between institutions and actors. Conducted interviews were used to develop a framework for prioritizing areas for post-fire restoration combining stakeholder input with geospatial analysis. Areas covering 77 km² were selected for restoration depending on the fire history, slope, and designation as part of the protected areas. Three locations with a total area of 31 km² were highlighted as potentially needing special attention.

Post-fire vegetation recovery was examined using spatial analysis, statistical methods, and machine learning. Satellite data from MODIS and Landsat over 2013–2025 were analysed through a chrono-sequence approach employing NDVI, EVI, and dNBR vegetation indices. Random Forest algorithm was applied for downscaling climate parameters. By combining spectral indices, topographic variables, and climate data, predictive Generalized Additive Mixed Models were developed to evaluate regeneration patterns in fire-prone areas. Results indicated that recovery correlates positively with precipitation and evapotranspiration and negatively with temperature and elevation. A related research direction emerged around the issue of power line ignitions as a wildfire source. Analysis of official data from the Hellenic Fire Service and records from WWF Greece, media sources and volunteers, along with application of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery for validating fire scars revealed systemic data limitations and proved that a total of 237 km² of burned area of selected case studies from 2018 to 2025 were directly linked to electrical causes.

The findings showed the need for developing comprehensive mixed-method approaches and the necessity for improved transparency and infrastructure maintenance to mitigate wildfire risks. Interdisciplinary design and the outcomes of this thesis contribute to the evolving field of Integrated Fire Management by comprehensive understanding of wildfire dynamics and offering evidence-based insights to guide more adaptive and inclusive wildfire governance in the Mediterranean.

With a population of nearly 280 million people, Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, encompassing more than 1,300 ethnic groups as well over 700 regional languages, with Bahasa Indonesia being the national language. Amid this diversity, the state promotes Pancasila (‘the Five Principles’), as the official ideological foundation of the nation. While Pancasila is constitutionally enshrined and widely invoked as a unifying framework, its meanings have been historically contested. Nonetheless, it has been foundational in teaching citizenship education, and it is clearly present in Indonesia’s shift to the digitalisation of education in recent years.

This research aims to explore the ways in which Pancasila is articulated, both historically as well as in contemporary governmental policies, and how it is adapted in teachers’ educational practices with digital media and technologies. As there is a historical lens through which one must observe the meaning-making of Pancasila, this research begins by examining this perspective from The Birth of Pancasila speech, the Pancasila Ideology Development Agency (BPIP), as well as the Merdeka Mengajar (Emancipated Teaching) digital platform (PMM) and the Pancasila Student Profile framework, which are initiatives that were launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology.

Through an inquiry adopting a cultural approach to educational media production, this study is theoretically grounded within the encoding/decoding framework (Hall,1973). As an analytical tool, it observes the meaning-making of Pancasila through culture and ideology (Anderson, 2006; Geertz, 1973) as well as the measurements of learning (Biesta, 2009), technological solutionism (Facer & Selwyn, 2021), and cultural citizenship identity (Dahlgren, 2006). Correspondingly, the research design centres a qualitative methodology that includes analysis of interviews, field notes observations, as well as documents and Pancasila education video analyses.

At the intersection of education technology and ideology, teachers are positioned as intermediaries to instil a culture of learning Pancasila as a ‘lived ideology’ by being its active interpreters. Ultimately, teachers’ negotiated practices in using digital technologies and media not only are a reflection of their being exemplary teachers, but also a feature of becoming Indonesian as well.