Homeowners, Communities, and Wildfire: Science Findings from the National Fire Plan. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Held in Bloomington, Indiana on June 2-5, 2002;Forest service general technical rept

摘要

;Table of Contents: People and wildfire: An overview; A model for improving community preparedness for wildfire; Keys to community preparedness for wildlife; Scale development of wildfire management basic beliefs; Indigenous and traditional use of fire in Southwestern grassland, woodland, and forest ecosystems; Assessing public tradeoffs between fire hazard and scenic beauty in the wildland-urban interface; Observance-influence of fire management and place attachment at big sur; Public perceptions of defensible space and landscape values in Minnesota and FLorida; Seasonal and permanent home owners' past experiences and approval of fuels reduction; Antecendents to attitudes toward prescribed burning, mechanical thinning, and defensible space fuel reduction technqiues and Californians' opinions on wildland and wilderness fire management.