The Circuit of Culture: A Strategy for Understanding the Evolving Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire

Champ, Joseph G.; Brooks, Jeffrey J.

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“…To this purpose, we applied a theoretical model of human relations and communication known as the Circuit of Culture (Acosta-Alzuru 2003;Benwell 2003Benwell , 2005Burgess 1990;Champ 2008;Champ and Brooks 2010;Curtin and Gaither 2005Dean and Jones 2003;Levine 2001;Norton 1996;Soar 2000;Squire 1993Squire , 1994aTaylor and others 2002;Terry 2005;Wilcox 2003…”

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Stakeholder Understandings of Wildfire Mitigation: A Case of Shared and Contested Meanings

Champ

Brooks

Williams

2012

Environmental Management

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This article identifies and compares meanings of wildfire risk mitigation for stakeholders in the Front Range of Colorado, USA. We examine the case of a collaborative partnership sponsored by government agencies and directed to decrease hazardous fuels in interface areas. Data were collected by way of key informant interviews and focus groups. The analysis is guided by the Circuit of Culture model in communication research. We found both shared and differing meanings between members of this partnership (the "producers") and other stakeholders not formally in the partnership (the "consumers"). We conclude that those promoting the partnership's project to mitigate risk are primarily aligned with a discourse of scientific management. Stakeholders outside the partnership follow a discourse of community. We argue that failure to recognize and account for differences in the way risk mitigation is framed and related power dynamics could hamper the communicational efforts of the collaborative partnership and impact goals for fuels reduction. We recommend ways that both groups can capitalize on shared meanings and how agency managers and decision makers can build better working relationships with interface communities and other external stakeholders.

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Stakeholder Understandings of Wildfire Mitigation: A Case of Shared and Contested Meanings

Champ

Brooks

Williams

2012

Environmental Management

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“…What has so far received little attention, however, is the symbolic dimension of natural disturbance and how it impacts communities (Champ and Brooks, 2010). As one op-ed put it: 'the bark beetle does not only devour trees, it devours souls' (Kollbö ck, 1997, p. 1).…”

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How natural disturbance triggers political conflict: Bark beetles and the meaning of landscape in the Bavarian Forest

Müller

2011

Global Environmental Change

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“…Our project was structured on a modified circuit of culture model emphasising: production (how, and by whom, 'things', such as global perspective(s), are created; representation (the ways that language, as words, symbols and metaphors, influences meaningful experience); and consumption (what people do with the things that are produced and represented). Similar cultural analyses of environmental phenomena have been provided by Carvalho and Burgess (2005) and by Champ and Brooks (2010).…”

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What global perspective does our university foster in our students?

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Mirosa

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Environmental Education Research

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We used a modified circuit of culture enquiry to explore processes of production, representation and consumption of global perspective at our university, in the context of fostering this perspective as a graduate attribute. We identified four frame packages by which this perspective is understood and communicated. Global perspective is framed within our institution simultaneously as essentially cooperative and as competitive. We express concern about how such complexity is fostered in our students. We ask our colleagues and university teachers internationally to critically reflect upon the diversity of global perspectives extant within higher education and potentially to clarify their intentions as university teachers.

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The Circuit of Culture: A Strategy for Understanding the Evolving Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Stakeholder Understandings of Wildfire Mitigation: A Case of Shared and Contested Meanings

Stakeholder Understandings of Wildfire Mitigation: A Case of Shared and Contested Meanings

How natural disturbance triggers political conflict: Bark beetles and the meaning of landscape in the Bavarian Forest

What global perspective does our university foster in our students?

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