… It aims to provide guidelines for conducting Participatory Action Research (PAR) on
community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration in the digital age. Forest and
land fires on peatlands can be prevented by rewetting and revegetating peatlands, and by
developing alternative livelihood sources for communities living in or around peatland areas.
Without the involvement of these communities, peatland restoration will be ineffective. …
The outcomes of these actions are then co-monitored to provide lessons learned for …

vi Preface in achieving the goals of restoring peatlands and developing and implementing
business models. At first, communities in villages struggled with internet access, but later
managed to organize themselves with shared internet connections. Face-to-face meetings
between community members and local facilitators posed few problems, but online platforms
became essential for communicating with researchers from other regions. The resulting
augmented PAR succeeded in overcoming initial problems with non-co-located …