Community wildfire protection planning: is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's vagueness genius?

被引:56
作者
Jakes, Pamela J. [1 ]
Nelson, Kristen C. [2 ]
Enzler, Sherry A. [2 ]
Burns, Sam [3 ]
Cheng, Antony S. [4 ]
Sturtevant, Victoria [5 ]
Williams, Daniel R. [6 ]
Bujak, Alexander [4 ]
Brummel, Rachel F. [2 ]
Grayzeck-Souter, Stephanie [2 ]
Staychock, Emily [4 ]
机构
[1] US Forest Serv, USDA, No Res Stn, St Paul, MN 55108 USA
[2] Univ Minnesota, Dept Forest Resources, St Paul, MN 55108 USA
[3] Ft Lewis Coll, Off Community Serv, Durango, CO 81301 USA
[4] Colorado State Univ, Dept Forest Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[5] So Oregon Univ, Dept Environm Studies, Ashland, OR 97520 USA
[6] US Forest Serv, USDA, Rocky Mt Res Stn, Ft Collins, CO 80526 USA
关键词
community capacity; policy implementation; wildfire management; wildland-urban interface; POLICY; IMPLEMENTATION; PREPAREDNESS; MANAGEMENT; FRAMEWORK; RESPONSES; CAPACITY; LESSONS; THREATS; HAZARD;
D O I
10.1071/WF10038
中图分类号
S7 [林业];
学科分类号
0829 ; 0907 ;
摘要
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) encourages communities to develop community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) to reduce their wildland fire risk and promote healthier forested ecosystems. Communities who have developed CWPPs have done so using many different processes, resulting in plans with varied form and content. We analysed data from 13 case-study communities to illustrate how the characteristics of HFRA have encouraged communities to develop CWPPs that reflect their local social and ecological contexts. A framework for analysing policy implementation suggests that some elements of HFRA could have made CWPP development and implementation problematic, but these potential shortcomings in the statute have provided communities the freedom to develop CWPPs that are relevant to their conditions and allowed for the development of capacities that communities are using to move forward in several areas.
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页码:350 / 363
页数:14
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