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Living with fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station:

Reducing wildfire risk to lives and property is a critical issue for policy makers, land managers, and citizens who reside in high-risk fire areas of the United States – this is especially the case in the Rocky Mountain region and other western states. In order for a wildfire risk reduction effort to be effective in a U.S. wildland-urban interface (WUI) community, the risk reduction effort must include community support and engagement. However, WUI communities have a wide range of social, political and economic characteristics that make a “cookie-cutter” approach to wildfire management planning unrealistic and ultimately ineffective.

Read the brief here.

Read the original research here.

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
April 9, 2020

Categories: Publication, Research Brief/SynthesisTags: all regions, Climate & Fire, climate change, community engagement, community fire response, community planning, Community Wildfire Protection Plans, defensible space, fire-adapted communities and fire response, fire-prone ecosystems, fire-resistant construction practices, fire-resistant renovation techniques, property damage, property protection, Rocky Mountain Research Station, wildfire, wildfire management, wildfire risk reduction, wildland urban interface, WUI

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