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A Burning Problem: Social Dynamics of Disaster Risk Reduction through Wildfire Mitigation

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Charnley, Susan, Poe, Melissa R., Ager, Alan A., Spies, Thomas A., Platt, Emily K., and Olsen, Keith A.

Abstract:

Disasters result from hazards affecting vulnerable people. Most disasters research by anthropologists focuses on vulnerability; this article focuses on natural hazards. We use the case of wildfire mitigation on United States Forest Service lands in the northwestern United States to examine social, political, and economic variables at multiple scales that...

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. Melissa R. Poe is an Environmental Social Scientist with the University of Washington Sea Grant Program