Sponsor
This project was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Grant #2011-67023-30695.
Published In
Ecology and Society
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Subjects
Wildfires -- New Mexico, Disaster resilience, Wildfires -- Prevention and control -- Environmental aspects
Abstract
Prompted by a series of increasingly destructive, expensive, and highly visible wildfire crises in human communities across the globe, a robust body of scholarship has emerged to theorize, conceptualize, and measure community-level resilience to wildfires. To date, however, insufficient consideration has been given to wildfire resilience as a process of adaptive governance mediated by institutions at multiple scales. Here we explore the possibilities for addressing this gap through an analysis of wildfire resilience among wildland-urban interface communities in the western region of the United States. We re-engage important but overlooked components of social-ecological system resilience by situating rural communities within their state-to national-level institutional contexts; we then analyze two communities in Nevada and New Mexico in terms of their institutional settings and responses to recent wildfire events. We frame our analysis around the concepts of scale matching, linking within and across scales, and institutional flexibility.
Rights
Copyright © 2015 by the author(s). License by the Resilience Alliance
DOI
10.5751/ES-07848-200334
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16233
Citation Details
Abrams, J. B., M. Knapp, T. B. Paveglio, A. Ellison, C. Moseley, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and M. C. Carroll. (2015) Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 20(3):34
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