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 wildfires. To date, however, insufficient consideratio...
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doaj-48559da6aa1448d9971fc878f4c32b062020-11-24T22:21:39ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872015-09-012033410.5751/ES-07848-2003347848Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governanceJesse B. Abrams0Melanie Knapp1Travis B. Paveglio2Autumn Ellison3Cassandra Moseley4Max Nielsen-Pincus5Matthew S. Carroll6Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of OregonU.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall FoundationDepartment Of Natural Resources and Society, University of IdahoEcosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of OregonEcosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of OregonDepartment of Environmental Science and Management, Portland State UniversitySchool of the Environment, Washington State UniversityPrompted 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 wildfires. To date, however, insufficient consideration has been given to wildfire resilience as a process of adaptive governance mediated by institutions at multiple scales. Here we explore the possibilities for addressing this gap through an analysis of wildfire resilience among wildland-urban interface communities in the western region of the United States. We re-engage important but overlooked components of social-ecological system resilience by situating rural communities within their state- to national-level institutional contexts; we then analyze two communities in Nevada and New Mexico in terms of their institutional settings and responses to recent wildfire events. We frame our analysis around the concepts of scale matching, linking within and across scales, and institutional flexibility.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss3/art34/disaster resilienceinstitutionslearningscale-matchingwildfirewildland-urban interface |
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Jesse B. Abrams Melanie Knapp Travis B. Paveglio Autumn Ellison Cassandra Moseley Max Nielsen-Pincus Matthew S. Carroll Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance Ecology and Society disaster resilience institutions learning scale-matching wildfire wildland-urban interface |
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Jesse B. Abrams Melanie Knapp Travis B. Paveglio Autumn Ellison Cassandra Moseley Max Nielsen-Pincus Matthew S. Carroll |
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Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance |
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Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance |
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Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance |
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Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance |
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re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the u.s. west as adaptive governance |
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Ecology and Society |
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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 wildfires. To date, however, insufficient consideration has been given to wildfire resilience as a process of adaptive governance mediated by institutions at multiple scales. Here we explore the possibilities for addressing this gap through an analysis of wildfire resilience among wildland-urban interface communities in the western region of the United States. We re-engage important but overlooked components of social-ecological system resilience by situating rural communities within their state- to national-level institutional contexts; we then analyze two communities in Nevada and New Mexico in terms of their institutional settings and responses to recent wildfire events. We frame our analysis around the concepts of scale matching, linking within and across scales, and institutional flexibility. |
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disaster resilience institutions learning scale-matching wildfire wildland-urban interface |
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