Skunkworks in the Embers of the Cedar Fire: Enhancing Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster

Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance

“…Combined with the prioritization of fuel reduction in populated areas, federal wildfire management may even act as a public subsidy for continued WUI expansion (Cortner andGale 1990, Busby andAlbers 2010). Decisions regarding the rebuilding of lost homes and neighborhoods in the wake of a fire event are strongly influenced by higher scale influences such as homeowners' insurance, localto regional-planning frameworks, and the presence or absence of federal disaster relief funds (Davis 2001, Goldstein 2008, Kousky et al 2012. As a result, the household-to community-scale entities responsible for residential development decisions may not be adequately incentivized or empowered to learn from and adapt to wildfire events.…”

“…In the United States, bridging organizations of various kinds have been responsible for building organizational capacity for within-and cross-scale fire management learning and planning. Examples include state-organized Fire Safe Councils in California (Everett 2002, Ganz et al 2007, grassroots organizations such as the San Diego Fire Recovery Network (Goldstein 2008), and multistakeholder community forestry organizations such as those profiled in Ruidoso, New Mexico ), Arizona's White Mountains region (Fleeger 2008, Abrams 2011, and northeast Oregon (Fleeger and Becker 2010).…”

“…Despite the fact that the wildfire literature has clearly been influenced by resilience thinking, some important insights from the larger body of resilience scholarship have yet to be fully incorporated. First, although some fire scholars emphasize resilience as an adaptive process (e.g., Goldstein 2008, Nowell and Steelman 2013, van Niekerk 2014, the notion of resilience as an iterative cycle of management, learning, and adaptation at the local level remains largely absent as an analytical lens for understanding the http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss3/art34/ dynamics of human community coexistence with wildfire. Second, despite widespread acknowledgement of the importance of institutions and organizations in influencing wildfire management, analyses of institutional drivers and integration across scales remain underdeveloped in scholarship on community fire resilience.…”

Citizen science and natural resource governance: program design for vernal pool policy innovation

“…This approach to governance "seem[s] to be preceded by the emergence of informal networks that help to facilitate information flows, identify knowledge gaps, and create nodes of expertise of significance for ecosystem management that can be drawn upon at critical times" (Olsson et al 2006:12). Flexible networks have played a key role in promoting governance in a wide range of ecosystem management contexts , Goldstein 2008, Sendzimir et al 2008. Citizen science programs can be designed to fill knowledge gaps, connect diverse institutions, and build relationships among researchers, policyEcology and Society 21(2): 48 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art48/ makers, resource managers, and citizens (Lowman et al 2009, McKinley et al 2012, and thereby contribute to the formation of adaptive governance.…”

Review Article: "Adaptive governance and resilience: the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in disaster risk reduction"

“…However, the author sees the need for more systematic learning from disaster experiences, a term that is frequently termed single, double and triple loop learning (Argyris and Schoen, 1974). Many studies in DRR express the need for (Jabeen et al, 2010;Goldstein, 2008;Josef, 2007;Voss and Wagner, 2010;Farazmand, 2007) systematic learning from disasters. This is also the case in Indonesia, whereby a finding from another paper found that the abundance of material published on lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami are not accessible to most of the decision makers at the local government level, nor is it evident that the systematic learning system is developed locally.…”