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Wildfire: A social and political perspective

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posted on 2023-05-22, 20:08 authored by Peter FairbrotherPeter Fairbrother, Tyler, M
Disasters are social events. A natural hazard becomes a disaster when it interferes with the lives and well-being of people and communities. How to prepare for, experience and recover from such events is a long- standing challenge and puzzle. Often, the most expedient solution is viewed as a combination of state support and regulation, and the use of technologically based practices to monitor, prepare and deal with the immediate and then ensue recovery. A corollary of this focus is that individuals and their communities require the capabilities to prepare for and address the possibility of disaster events as well as their actual occurrence and aftermath. In this seemingly rounded way, it is claimed that natural disaster can be dealt with in more or less effective and expedient ways. The problem is that these relations bring questions of power into play in stark ways, a feature that is usually overlooked in relation to disaster events. Disaster events therefore require sociological and political analysis.

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Publication title

Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice

Edition

1st

Editors

P Fairbrother and M Tyler

Pagination

1-16

ISBN

9781138370203

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

New York, USA

Extent

9

Rights statement

Copyright 2019 Taylor & Francis

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Climatological hazards (e.g. extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires)

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