Diverging rationalities between forest fire management services and the general public after the 21st-century mega-fires in Greece
Diverging rationalities between forest fire management services and the general public after the 21st-century mega-fires in Greece作者机构:Department of EnvironmentUniversity of the Aegean81100 MytileneLesvos IslandGreece Department of GeographyUniversity of the Aegean81100 MytileneLesvos IslandGreece
出 版 物:《Journal of Forestry Research》 (林业研究(英文版))
年 卷 期:2022年第33卷第2期
页 面:553-564页
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主 题:Wildfire Qualitative research Rationality Fire governance Public Perception Risk assessment
摘 要:Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change,especially in fire-prone environments such as the Mediterranean *** rationalities,i.e.,the complex profile of multi-thematic,wildfire-related perceptions that collectively characterize and quantify all of a society’s responses,its interrelations,and influence on its insights,are of primary importance to understand the degree of preparedness and the direction that wildfire management policies are *** is a country that suffered mega-wildfire events during the first years of the twenty-first *** paper presents a scheme of advanced multivariate statistical procedures applied on standard social survey questionnaires to uncover different or similar rationalities between fire management services and the general ***-centered versus message-oriented rationalities is *** differ mainly on the priorities attributed to strengthening personnel and equipment capacities versus the need for public education and *** are evaluated against the needs of long-term risk assessment and forest management policies in *** main conclusion is that Greek society,although traumatized by recent fire disasters,is not yet prepared for long-term strategic forestry adaptation and planning.