Situational Influences of Acceptable Wildland Fire Management Actions

Kneeshaw, Katie; Vaske, Jerry J.; Bright, Alan D.; Absher, James D.

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“…Kneeshaw et al (2004b) found that individuals were less willing to accept less aggressive responses (such as let burn) when the actions contributed to poor air quality. Thapa et al (2004) found that smoke concerns (health problems, automobile accidents, and general smoke) led some destination vacationers (5 percent) to cancel their trip and roughly one-third to change their destination.…”

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“…0 et al 2011, Ryan et al 2006). Similarly, the few studies that examine acceptability of letting naturally ignited fires burn found that acceptance was also dependent upon location, particularly in terms of risk to private property, with higher acceptance of fire use in more remote areas (Gunderson and Watson 2007, Kneeshaw et al 2004b, McFarlane et al 2007, Paveglio et al 2011, Winter and Cvetkovich 2010. However, Toman et al (2011) found an exception to this pattern with little difference between acceptance of use of prescribed fire in remote areas (66 percent) and around neighborhoods (62 percent) (although the latter did have higher proportions who judged it unacceptable rather than neutral).…”

Section: Fuels Reductionmentioning

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Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

McCaffrey¹,

Olsen²

2012

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As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem? 2. Who are trusted sources of information about fire? 3. What are the public's views of fuels reduction methods, and how do those views vary depending on citizens' location in the wildland-urban interface or elsewhere? 4. What is the public's understanding of smoke effects on human health, and what shapes the public's tolerance for smoke? 5. What are homeowners' views of their responsibilities for home and property protection and mitigation, e.g., defensible space measures? 6. What role does human health and safety play in the public's perceptions of fire and fire management? 7. What are the public's views on the role and importance of costs in wildfire incident response decisions? 8. To the extent that information is available, how do findings differ among ethnic and cultural groups, and across regions of the country?Despite limited fire research specific to the questions on costs, and human health and safety, common findings on all these interrelated topics are summarized in this document. Research has found that the public has a fairly sophisticated understanding of fire's ecological role and the environmental factors that can increase fire risk. The public obtains information on fire from a wide variety of sources, but findings consistently show that interactive information sources are both generally preferred and more effective than unidirectional sources. As a way to improve ecosystem health and reduce fire risk, active land management generally has greater citizen support than a no-action alternative. Most respondents accept the practice of prescribed fire for active forest management and tolerate the accompanying smoke; in contrast, smoke is a highly salient issue for households with health concerns. The public tends to see mitigating the fire risk as a shared responsibility with landowners, whether public or private, responsible for taking appropriate action on their own property. Cost figures in to citizens' decisionmaking about actions to protect property before a wildfire but may be less of a priority during incident response. Except for ethnicity or race, little evidence was found of meaningful variation in public response to fire management based on socio-demographic characteristics or geographic variation.

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Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

McCaffrey¹,

Olsen²

2012

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“…(Cortner & Gale, 1990, p. 254) Some researchers have examined this people problem by studying the potential threat of wildland fire to outdoor leisure activities through an economic lens (Englin, Loomis & Gonzalez-Caban, 2001;Starbuck, Berrens & McKee, 2006). Others have done so from the perspective of attitude change theory (Kneeshaw et al, 2004a;Kneeshaw et al, 2004b). We argue that the research can go further.…”

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“…Many of these studies have concentrated on the economic impact of wildland fire burning popular recreation areas (Englin, Loomis, & Gonzalez-Caban, 2001;Starbuck, Berrens, & McKee, 2006). Other attitudinal studies have investigated how social norms influence the way recreationists perceive fuels treatment (Kneeshaw et al, 2004a;Kneeshaw et al, 2004b). However, little research has examined how people perceive wildland fire, particularly regarding their experiences with highly valued places in which they recreate and engage in practices of identity.…”

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Wildland Fire and Organic Discourse: Negotiating Place and Leisure Identity in a Changing Wildland Urban Interface

Champ

Williams

Knotek³

2009

Leisure Sciences

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“…This is because prescribed burns can affect human lives, private property, roads, and air quality (Kneeshaw et al 2004). We also expected that the amount of woody brush on a landowner's property would be related to their evaluation of land condition (good or bad), and that this evaluation, together with concerns about proximity of roads and urban areas, would directly influence their attitude toward high-intensity prescribed burns.…”

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Social and Ecological Factors Influencing Attitudes Toward the Application of High-Intensity Prescribed Burns to Restore Fire Adapted Grassland Ecosystems

Toledo¹,

Sorice²,

Kreuter³

2013

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ABSTRACT. Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the reintroduction of historic fires at a landscape scale is its social acceptability. Despite the growing body of literature on the social aspects of fire, an understanding of the human dimensions of applying high-intensity prescribed burns in grassland and savanna systems is lacking. We used structural equation modeling to examine how landowners' attitudes toward high-intensity prescribed burns are affected by previous experience with burning, perceptions of brush encroachment, land condition, proximity constraints, risk orientation, fire management knowledge and skill, access to fire management equipment, and subjective norms. Our results suggest that experience, risk taking orientation, and especially social norms, i.e., perceived support from others, when implementing prescribed burns play an important role in determining the attitudes of landowners toward the use of high-intensity prescribed burns. Concern over lack of skill, knowledge, and insufficient resources have a moderately negative effect on these attitudes. Our results highlight the importance of targeted engagement strategies to address risk perceptions, subjective norms, and landowner's concerns. With these concerns allayed, it is possible to increase the adoption of high-intensity prescribed burns that lead to landscape-scale grassland restoration and conservation.

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Situational Influences of Acceptable Wildland Fire Management Actions

Cited by 60 publications

References 13 publications

Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

Wildland Fire and Organic Discourse: Negotiating Place and Leisure Identity in a Changing Wildland Urban Interface

Social and Ecological Factors Influencing Attitudes Toward the Application of High-Intensity Prescribed Burns to Restore Fire Adapted Grassland Ecosystems

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