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Representations of wildfires in academia
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol.67(9), pp.1952-1976
2024
Abstract
In response to intensifying wildfire seasons, scholars call for new wildfire policy and management approaches. Based on the assumption that science, policy, and management are integrated spheres of meaning-making, this article aims to contribute to reflective and creative research conversations about fire policy and management by directing analytical attention to the role of science. Using Causal Layered Analysis, we unpack scientific representations of three wildfire events/seasons in Sweden, the US, and Australia. The analysis illustrates that scientific representations of wildfires are contextual and promote particular policy recommendations and management interventions. Furthermore, the review identifies a discrepancy between dominant, more simplistic representations and the dynamic and complex representation emerging from an interdisciplinary reading of the literature. To address this discrepancy, we argue that there is a need to continuously renegotiate the boundaries of wildfires through rethinking the process underpinning the scientific representations to account for the complexity inherent in wildfire events.
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- Title
- Representations of wildfires in academia
- Authors
- Max Whitman (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietySara Holmgren (Author) - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Publication details
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol.67(9), pp.1952-1976
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/09640568.2022.2150155
- ISSN
- 1360-0559; 0964-0568
- Copyright note
- (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited.Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2022https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2022.2150155
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99698697602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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