Cultural Theory, Wildfire Information Source, and Agency Public Trust: A Central Oregon Case Study
Cultural Theory, Wildfire Information Source, and Agency Public Trust: A Central Oregon Case Study
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文化理论、野火信息源和机构公共信任：俄勒冈州中部案例研究
DOI：
10.1007/s00267-023-01909-7
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Pierce, John C.
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作者：
Steel, Brent S.;Lovrich, Nicholas P.;Pierce, John C.
随着美国野火的发生率和严重程度不断增加，特别是在美国西部的森林和牧场，了解哪些野火信息来源受到家庭的信任以及对自然资源机构管理野火的信任程度非常重要。动机推理理论认为，人们会信任并使用那些符合自身价值和意识形态取向的信息源。同样，对自然资源机构管理野火能力的信任也可能是文化特征的结果。本研究使用文化理论作为理论视角来确定这些价值体系，以及文化特征如何激励人们使用和信任各种野火信息来源和负责管理野火的机构。通过对俄勒冈州中部火灾多发的德舒特县的荒地-城市接口（WUI）家庭进行随机抽样调查，研究发现，平等主义者比具有其他文化特征的人更有可能使用和信任自然资源机构信息来源，而个人主义者更有可能使用和信任家庭成员和邻居的信息。同样，平等主义者相信自然资源管理者会使用规定的火种，管理自然点燃的火灾，并通过砍伐森林来减少燃料。个人主义者不太信任政府机构使用相同的方法来减少燃料。该研究最后提出了一些建议，说明野火政策制定者和管理者如何利用这些发现，向具有不同文化特征和不同自然资源机构信任水平的受众更有效地传达重要的野火信息。
With the increasing occurrence and severity of wildfires in the U.S., and especially in the forests and rangelands of the western U.S., it is important to know which wildfire information sources are trusted by households and the amount of trust placed on natural resources agencies to manage for wildfire. The Theory of Motivated Reasoning suggests that people will trust and use those information sources that conform to their own value and ideological orientations. Similarly, trust in natural resource agencies’ ability to manage wildfire may also be the result of cultural traits. This study uses Cultural Theory as a theoretical perspective to determine those value systems, and how cultural traits motivate people to use and trust various wildfire information sources and the agencies tasked with managing wildfire. Using random sample surveys of Wildland-Urban-Interface (WUI) households in fire-prone Deschutes County in central Oregon, the study finds thategalitariansare significantly more likely than those with other cultural traits to use and trust natural resource agency information sources, whileindividualistsare more likely to use and trust family members and neighbors for their information. Similarly, egalitarians are trusting of natural resource managers to use prescribed fire, manage naturally ignited fires, and to thin forests to reduce fuels. Individualists are less trusting of government agencies to use the same approaches to reduce fuels. The study concludes with some suggestions for how wildfire policy makers and managers can use these findings to communicate more effectively important wildfire information to audiences with differing cultural traits and differing levels of natural resource agency trust.