Geographic variation in social acceptability of wildland fuels management in the western United States
Geographic variation in social acceptability of wildland fuels management in the western United States
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DOI：
10.1080/08941920490480688
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发表时间：
2004-09-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Shindler, BA
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作者：
Brunson, MW;Shindler, BA
当代自然资源管理需要考虑管理实践和条件的社会可接受性。希望衡量、回应和影响社会可接受性的机构必须了解公众对有争议问题看法的细微差别。这项研究探讨了社会对这样一个问题的可接受性判断：减少美国西部联邦土地上的荒地燃料危害。对四个地点的市民进行了调查，在这些地点，火灾是一个重要的生态干扰因素，公共土地机构建议通过规定的燃烧、疏林、清除灌木丛和/或放牧牲畜来减少荒地燃料水平和野火危害。不同地区的受访者对火和燃料问题的认识以及可接受性判断存在差异。这些差异与特定地点的社会和环境因素以及个人信仰有关。研究结果反对在燃料管理方面使用“一刀切”的政策或信息策略。
Contemporary natural resource management requires consideration of the social acceptability of management practices and conditions. Agencies wishing to measure, respond to, and influence social acceptability must understand the nuances of public perception regarding controversial issues. This study explores social acceptability judgments about one such issue: reduction of wildland fuel hazards on federal lands in the western United States. Citizens were surveyed in four locations where fire has been a significant ecological disturbance agent and public land agencies propose to reduce wildland fuel levels and wildfire hazards via prescribed burning, thinning, brush removal, and/or livestock grazing. Respondents in different locations differed in their knowledge aboutfire and fuel issues as well in their acceptability judgments. Differences are associated with location-specific social and environmental factors as well as individual beliefs. Results argue against using "one-size-fits-all'' policies or information strategies about fuels management.