Categorizing the social context of the wildland urban interface: Adaptive capacity for wildfire and community “Archetypes”

Forest Science

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 298-310

  Paveglio, Travis B ^a   Moseley, Cassandra ^b   Carroll, Matthew S ^c   Williams, Daniel R ^d   Davis, Emily Jane ^e   Fischer, A Paige ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Hazards; Social diversity; Wildland fire; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; COMMUNITY IDENTITIES; CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; SOCIAL DIVERSITY; WILDLAND FIRE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

FIRES;

EID: 84926344218     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.14-036     Document Type: Article

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