Rangeland Fire Protection Associations in Great Basin Rangelands: A Model for Adaptive Community Relationships with Wildfire?

Abrams, Jesse; Davis, Emily Jane; Wollstein, Katherine

doi:10.1007/s10745-017-9945-y

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“…Abrams et al (2015) demonstrate how adaptive governance differences between communities are mediated by available human capital, the presence and capacity of community‐based civic organizations, community development histories, and ecological settings. The influence of patterns of social interaction among actors within and between different segments within a local community, coupled with the rich diversity of people‐place histories and values, has resulted in communities being differentially adaptive in their strategic and tactical approaches to addressing wildfire risk, as uncovered in numerous community case studies conducted by Paveglio and colleagues (Carroll & Paveglio, 2016; Paveglio, Carroll, Stasiewicz, & Edgeley, 2019; Paveglio & Edgeley, 2017; Paveglio et al, 2015), and others (Abrams, Davies, & Wollstein, 2017; Canadas, Novais, & Marques, 2016).…”

Section: Adaptive Governance: Key Tenets Attributes and Prior Reseamentioning

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Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights From the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program

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Dale

2020

Review of Policy Research

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Competitive grants are increasingly used to induce proactive collaborative action by a range of actors to reduce forest wildfire risks. Given the rigidity of past wildfire risk governance, it is important to assess the adaptability of competitive grants as a new governance approach. Adaptive governance theory is used as a lens to assess the adaptability of the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant (WRRG) program, which awards funds to successful applicants to reduce fuel on non-federal lands at a community scale. Four best practices from the theory were applied: participation of and collaboration among diverse actors; co-production of knowledge and learning toward adaptive management; cross-scale interactions and fit between the scale of governance and the scale of the ecological problem; and the capacity for innovation and reorganization. Using data and information about the WRRG structure and processes, awarded grantees from the first five granting cycles from 2013 to 2016, our direct participation-observation as part of the Advisory Committee, and results from the WRRG effectiveness monitoring report, we examine the extent to which the WRRG program exhibited adaptive governance attributes. For each adaptive governance attribute, we found evidence of factors facilitating and frustrating adaptiveness of the WRRG program. We situate our findings within the broader context of using competitive grants as a forest wildfire risk governance approach and address additional directions for adaptive governance research.

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Section: Adaptive Governance: Key Tenets Attributes and Prior Reseamentioning

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Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights From the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program

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Dale

2020

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“…Paveglio et al (, ), for instance, reveal how some residents in rural ‘working lands’ communities have an interest in participating in fire suppression efforts, be it through the contribution of local knowledge, social networks, and equipment, or in assuming an active role on the fire line. These residents can potentially offer assets to fire suppression initiatives, yet challenges concerning safety, communication, and effective partnership are also inherent in the involvement of non‐professional, non‐governmental entities in an arena traditionally reserved for professionalised federal and state firefighters with distinct organisational authorities, rules, and structures (Paveglio et al, , Abrams, Davis, and Wollstein, ; Davis et al, ).…”

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“…A relatively novel approach to rangeland wildfire response has emerged in this vein in the western US: the establishment of Rangeland Fire Protection Associations (RFPAs). RFPAs, which have proliferated across range areas of the states of Idaho and Oregon, are volunteer‐based, non‐profit groups of private landowners who are trained and authorised to respond to rangeland fires on private, state, and federal lands in partnership with governmental agencies (Stasiewicz and Paveglio, 2016; Abrams, Davis, and Wollstein, ).…”

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“…Despite growing policy interest and investment in the RFPA model, as well as plans for RFPAs in other western states, a limited amount of study has taken place to date (Stasiewicz and Paveglio, 2016; Abrams, Davis, and Wollstein, ; Abrams, Wollstein, and Davis, ), and scholars who focus on disaster response organisations have paid no attention to these entities. Yet, RFPAs can contribute to new knowledge of disaster response organisations in a unique disaster setting.…”

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Rangeland Fire Protection Associations as disaster response organisations

2019

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Rangeland Fire Protection Associations (RFPAs) are volunteer-based groups of trained private landowners who are authorised to respond to events in partnership with governmental agencies. This study analysed the functioning and structure of RFPAs in Idaho and Oregon in the western United States to characterise this under-researched model of disaster response. RFPAs represent an expanding type of disaster response organisation that interfaces with established fire suppression entities, yet 'emergent behaviour' manifested in some RFPA response actions. This appeared to lessen and mediate with time, as well as due to recognition of the issues, increased experience of fires, and training that fostered new mutual understandings. There is a need for continued examination of the effect of repeat experience in developing the characteristics of disaster response organisations. In addition, it is crucial to know how the interface between established and other types of organisations may be enhanced to make cooperative disaster response more effective.

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“…Environmental problems are considered in the framework of either environmental or international law [4]. Western scientists pay attention to changes in ecological systems [5], the emergence of models of adaptive relationships of the community with spontaneous forces [6].…”

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Human right to a favorable environment

2020

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The relevance of the research topic is caused by the fact that human intervention in nature has reached its peak. Meanwhile, without a clean environment, there can be no man, no society, no state. The purpose of the research is to prove that the human right to a favorable environment is a natural human right, requiring immediate recognition at the international level. In conducting the study, formal legal, logical, systemic methods, as well as methods of interpreting law were used. Empirical material is presented by decisions of international courts. It is concluded that the human right to a favorable environment is the legal basis for the development and implementation by each state of an environmental policy that includes the legal, informational, educational, financial, international aspects. The right to a favorable environment is a natural human right with a complex structure. It naturally follows from the original natural human right - the right to life. The case-law of international courts laid the foundation for the recognition of this human right. It is necessary at the international level to recognize the right to a favorable environment as a natural human right.

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Rangeland Fire Protection Associations in Great Basin Rangelands: A Model for Adaptive Community Relationships with Wildfire?

Cited by 25 publications

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Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights From the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program

Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights From the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program

Rangeland Fire Protection Associations as disaster response organisations

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