People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science
People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science
复制标题
人、火和森林：野火社会科学综合
DOI：
10.5860/choice.45-2020
复制
发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
C. Moseley
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
T. Daniel;M. Carroll;C. Moseley
多年的干旱和数十年的积极火灾排除使北美森林面临未来灾难性火灾的高风险。森林环境吸引了大量的娱乐机会和快速增长的住宅开发，使越来越多的市民和他们的财产进入野火的路径。创纪录的野火开启了21世纪，并促使野火在政治议程上的地位上升，促使人们采取了重要而深远的新公共政策举措。要想有效，这些政策必须以科学为依据，但这需要的不仅仅是提高关于火灾和森林生态系统的物理和生物动态的知识。负责野火决策的机构和个人还必须考虑社会价值观、社会经济因素、人口趋势、制度安排和人类行为。《人、火和森林》是第一本将社会科学文献与野火的人类维度相结合的书，它回顾了目前这个广泛的跨学科领域的研究，并将它们综合成一个具有实际管理意义的丰富知识体系。书中的章节突出了现有研究中的主要发现和共同线索，并确定了优势和差距。它们涵盖了诸如公众对野火风险的认知、火灾管理政策的可接受性以及野火对社区的影响等主题。《人、火与森林》旨在使相关的社会科学信息对野火风险管理者和政策制定者更容易获得和有用，也旨在鼓励和指导对野火的进一步研究。通过探索人类与野火相互作用的理论和方法问题，并描述这项研究的实际意义，本书为学生、学者和专业人士提供了重要的资源。
Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for future catastrophic fires. Forest settings are a magnet for recreational opportunities and for rapidly growing residential developmentputting an increasing number of citizens and their property into the path of wildfires. Recordsetting wildfires initiated the twentyfirst century and motivated the rise to prominence of wildfire on the political agenda, prompting important and farreaching new public policy initiatives. To be effective, these policies must be informed by science but that requires more than just improved knowledge about the physical and biological dynamics of fire and forest ecosystems. Social values, socioeconomic factors, demographic trends, institutional arrangements, and human behavior must also be taken into consideration by the agencies and individuals responsible for wildland fire decision making. The first book to integrate the social science literature on the human dimensions of wildfire, People, Fire, and Forests reviews current studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field and synthesizes them into a rich body of knowledge with practical management implications. Chapters in the book highlight principal findings and common threads in the existing research and identify strengths and gaps. They cover such topics as public perception of wildfire risk, acceptability of fire management policies, and community impacts of wildfire. Designed to make relevant social science information more available and useful to wildfire risk managers and policy makers, People, Fire, and Forests is also intended to encourage and guide further research into wildfire. By exploring the theoretical and methodological issues surrounding human interactions with wildfire and describing the practical implications of this research, this volume provides an essential resource for students, scholars, and professionals.