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Understanding support for regulatory approaches to wildfire management and performance of property mitigations on private lands
Formal regulation of private property and exploration of 'risk transmission' across ownerships are two popular means for addressing wildfire management at landscape scales. However, existing studies also indicate that a number of barriers exist for…
Author(s): Travis B. Paveglio, Amanda M. Stasiewicz, Catrin Edgeley
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Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Prompted by a series of increasingly destructive, expensive, and highly visible wildfire crises in human communities across the globe, a robust body of scholarship has emerged to theorize, conceptualize, and measure community-level resilience to…
Author(s): Jesse Abrams, Melanie Knapp, Travis B. Paveglio, Autumn Ellison, Cassandra Moseley, Max W. Nielsen-Pincus, Matthew S. Carroll
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Community wildfire protection planning: is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's vagueness genius?
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) encourages communities to develop community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) to reduce their wildland fire risk and promote healthier forested ecosystems. Communities who have developed CWPPs have…
Author(s): Pamela J. Jakes, Kristen C. Nelson, Sherry A. Enzler, Sam Burns, Anthony S. Cheng, Victoria Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams, Alexander N. Bujak, Rachel F. Brummel, Stephanie A. Grayzeck-Souter, Emily Staychock
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What is limiting more flexible fire management-public or agency pressure?
Conventional wisdom within American federal fire management agencies suggests that external influence such as community or political pressure for aggressive suppression are key factors circumscribing the ability to execute less aggressive fire…
Author(s): Toddi A. Steelman, Sarah M. McCaffrey
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Fire safe councils in the interface
Legislators exhort government agencies to work with the public to reduce fire hazards in the wildland-urban interface. However, working with an unorganized 'public' is a challenge for agencies. We present survey research on fire safe councils in…
Author(s): Yvonne Everett, Michelle Fuller
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Alternatives to evacuation during wildland fire: exploring adaptive capacity in one Idaho community
The use of alternatives to evacuation during wildfire events continues to be an intensely debated strategy in the professional and policy circles of numerous fire-prone countries. The most recent chapter comes in response to the Black Saturday Fires…
Author(s): Travis B. Paveglio, Matthew S. Carroll, Pamela J. Jakes
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The what, how, and when of social reliance and cooperative risk management
A study of the relationship between public trust and management actions taken by the US Forest Service. This chapter focuses on an analysis of the definitions 'social reliance' and 'trust,' then applies them to various examples…
Author(s): George T. Cvetkovich, Patricia L. Winter
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