Developing Fire Adapted Communities: The Importance of Interactions Among Elements of Local Context

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1246-1261

  Paveglio, Travis B ^a   Abrams, Jesse ^b   Ellison, Autumn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

fire adapted community; local context; wildfire; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; FIRE MANAGEMENT; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

EID: 84959066103     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1132351     Document Type: Article

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