A wildfire risk management concept based on a social-ecological approach in the European Union: Fire Smart Territory

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• 作者：Fantina Tedim^a ; ^{ftedim@letras.up.pt" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Vittorio Leone^b ; ^{vittorio.leone@tiscali.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Gavriil Xanthopoulos^c ; ^{gxnrtc@fria.gr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Adaptive management ; CHNS ; Fire Smart Territory (FST) ; Fire suppression ; Social-ecological approach ; Sustainable development ; SWOT analysis ; TEK ; Wildfire risk
• 刊名：International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：Complete
• 页码：138-153
• 全文大小：1976 K

文摘

The current wildfire policies in European Union countries have not solved the wildfire problem and probably will not be effective in the future, as all the initiatives focus on suppression and minimize the use of fire embedded in the Traditional Ecologic Knowledge of European communities. The traditional fire use as a tool for land management has been handled and almost criminalized by an urban-centric perspective and anti-fire bias. These policies are poorly adapted to, and cannot cope with, the complex nature of the wildfire phenomenon since they neglect its social roots. This paper presents a forward-looking and innovative model of wildfire management focused not at the landscape, or community, or forest level but at the territory scale. Fire Smart Territory (FST) is the proposed theoretical, the context specific, and place-based operational framework. The grounding assumptions of FST are that fire is a dual and ambiguous process, that it is not merely a biophysical process with social overtones but a social process, and it is a complex issue which can be understood only in the coupled human and natural systems where it occurs. FST advocates that the current wildfire challenges cannot be solved by a check list of theoretically adequate procedures, but through locally understanding the wildfire problem and strategically preparing each territory to be less wildfire prone, and its inhabitants to be less vulnerable, and more resilient, in the scope of economic valorization, sustainable development, and safety of the territory resources.