A Socio-Ecological Approach to Mitigating Wildfire Vulnerability in the Wildland Urban Interface: A Case Study from the 2017 Thomas Fire
A Socio-Ecological Approach to Mitigating Wildfire Vulnerability in the Wildland Urban Interface: A Case Study from the 2017 Thomas Fire
复制标题
减轻荒地城市界面野火脆弱性的社会生态方法：以 2017 年托马斯火灾为例
作者：
C. Kolden;Carol Henson
野火灾害是全球野火活动增加的众多后果之一，已经做出了很多努力来确定减少人类对野火的脆弱性的战略和行动。虽然许多个人房主和社区已经制定了这样的战略，但遭受随后野火的人数要低得多。此外，关于缓解战略如何影响整个社会生态范围的野火结果的文献有限。在这里，我们提出了一个案例报告，记录了加州Montecito社区采取的野火脆弱性缓解策略，以及这些策略如何解决暴露，敏感性和适应能力。我们利用地理空间数据，记录的采访和程序文件，以综合这些策略随后如何影响2017年托马斯火灾在极端火灾危险条件下对Montecito社区的推进。尽管极端的风力条件和受访者估计可能有数百个家庭被消耗，只有七个主要住宅被摧毁的托马斯火灾，消防队员表示，火灾前的缓解活动发挥了明显的，在观察到的结果的核心作用。这支持了先前的研究结果，即机构和公民之间的社区伙伴关系对于确定和实施基于地点的解决方案以减少野火脆弱性至关重要。
Wildfire disasters are one of the many consequences of increasing wildfire activities globally, and much effort has been made to identify strategies and actions for reducing human vulnerability to wildfire. While many individual homeowners and communities have enacted such strategies, the number subjected to a subsequent wildfire is considerably lower. Furthermore, there has been limited documentation on how mitigation strategies impact wildfire outcomes across the socio-ecological spectrum. Here we present a case report documenting wildfire vulnerability mitigation strategies undertaken by the community of Montecito, California, and how such strategies addressed exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. We utilize geospatial data, recorded interviews, and program documentation to synthesize how those strategies subsequently impacted the advance of the 2017 Thomas Fire on the community of Montecito under extreme fire danger conditions. Despite the extreme wind conditions and interviewee estimates of potentially hundreds of homes being consumed, only seven primary residences were destroyed by the Thomas Fire, and firefighters indicated that pre-fire mitigation activities played a clear, central role in the outcomes observed. This supports prior findings that community partnerships between agencies and citizens are critical for identifying and implementing place-based solutions to reducing wildfire vulnerability.
影响因子：
10.3
作者：
Fischer, A. Paige;Spies, Thomas A.;Bowman, David M. J. S.
通讯作者：
Bowman, David M. J. S.
影响因子：
5.2
作者：
Lareau, N. P.;Nauslar, N. J.;Abatzoglou, J. T.
通讯作者：
Abatzoglou, J. T.