Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Stakeholder-driven Challenges and Opportunities for Wildfire Mitigation and Preparedness

野火事件对农村地区的社区和生态系统的影响尤为显著。这些地区的许多居民缺乏财政资源来应对和减轻野火事件的影响。这种情况在美国南部大部分地区尤其如此，那里的社会和文化背景给救灾和减灾带来了独特的挑战。该项目制定计划，调查美国南部不断增长的荒地-城市界面（WUI）中野火的影响，并有助于了解这一关键区域的独特动态。本研究为推进野火事件作为增强社区恢复力机制的论述提供了科学和实践的见解。该项目采用利益相关者驱动的方法来整理数据和资源，作为对野火危害和人类住区日益突出但仍未充分了解的问题进行持续科学调查的基础。该项目涉及召集和调节一系列研究人员、从业人员和其他利益相关者之间的对话，讨论荒地火灾风险，并探讨成功减轻、管理和应对美国南部荒地火灾危险的关键问题。研究小组收集有关当前野火计划、法规、以及该地区的行政和通信结构，以更好地了解与野火风险相关的治理，并调查野火对建筑环境、响应系统以及响应者和当地社区健康的潜在风险。研究目标是：(1)通过实践和学术讨论确定南方野火缓解的主要挑战；(2)评估美国南部野火风险管理在规划和法规中的整合；(3)通过准备和响应规划以及公私利益相关者的协调，了解社区的复原力，以在野火发生之前、期间和之后提高医疗服务的可及性。对美国南部的地理关注反映了研究小组更广泛的意图，即在气候变化放大风险和不确定性的情况下，增加与野火相关的知识和能力，这些知识和能力是研究不足和可能准备不足的地区。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Wildland fire events have particularly significant impacts on communities and ecosystems in rural areas. Many residents in these areas lack the financial resources to cope with and mitigate the impacts of wildland fire events. This context is particularly the case in much of the Southern United States where social and cultural contexts present unique challenges for disaster response and mitigation. This project develops plans to investigate the impacts of wildland fire in the growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) in the Southern United States and contributes to the understanding of the unique dynamics in this critical zone. This research provides both scientific and practical insight to advance the discourse on wildland fire events as a mechanism to enhance community resilience. The project uses a stakeholder driven approach to collate data and resources as a foundation for continued scientific investigation of increasingly prominent yet still insufficiently understood issues surrounding wildfire hazards and human settlement.This project involves convening and moderating conversations among a range of researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders to discuss wildland fire risk and explore key issues for successfully mitigating, managing, and living with wildland fire hazards in the Southern U.S. The research team gathers information on current wildfire plans, regulations, and administrative and communications structures in the region to better understand governance as related to wildland fire risk and investigate potential risks of wildfire to the built environment, response systems, and the health of responders and local communities. The research objectives are to: (1) identify key challenges to wildland fire mitigation in the South through practitioner and academic discussions; (2) assess the integration of wildland fire risk management in plans and regulations in the Southern United States; and (3) understand community resilience through preparedness and response planning and coordination of public-private stakeholders to enhance healthcare access before, during and after a wildfire. The geographic focus on the U.S. South reflects the researcher team’s broader intent to augment wildfire-related knowledge and capabilities of understudied and potentially underprepared regions as climate change amplifies risk and uncertainty.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.