What will you learn?
A growing body of wildfire research indicates that populations will support or enact different programs, policies and planning approaches to better “live with wildfire.” This presentation builds on one existing conceptual approach for characterizing local socio-ecological conditions that influence how and why populations might adapt differently to changing wildfire conditions. The presentation concludes with a call for wildfire social science to reconsider the value of understanding adaptation as a process, and to diversify assessment of progress toward national goals of “fire adapted communities” by considering how wildfire management best responds to local conditions.
Presenters:
Travis Paveglio is an assistant professor of natural resource sociology in the Department of Natural Resources and Society at the University of Idaho. His research focuses on the human and policy dimensions of wildfire management (e.g. evacuation policies, fuel reduction planning, homeowner mitigation actions, suppression actions, identification of values-at-risk, and recovery aid), with an overarching emphasis on the ways that diverse populations adapt to changing wildfire risk and develop relationships with the landscape. Paveglio has spent more than a decade conducting qualitative and quantitative case studies of collaborative wildfire risk management, response and recovery in dozens of communities across the western US. He received training in natural resource sociology, communication and ecology.
Matt Carroll is a forester and a natural resource sociologist and has been on the faculty in what is now the School of the Environment at WSU since 1987. His research is concerned with the relationships of human communities and populations to land and natural resources with a particular emphasis on public lands in the US. Much of his work over the past two decades has focused on the social impacts of large wildfire events and his current efforts focus on how communities in fire-prone areas can become more fire-adapted.
Session Details:
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 10am US/Pacific || Duration: 1 hour
Who should participate?
Scientists/Researchers, Land managers/Practitioners, Wildland Firefighters, Other
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