Thesis
The "strings attached" to community difference and potential pathways to fire adaptiveness in the wildland urban interface
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
05/2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000003999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/124283
Abstract
This research expands upon ongoing efforts that explore the differences between communities within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Those differences are relative to practical pathways that can be taken to achieve higher levels of adaptation to wildfire risk. This particular analysis focuses on two case study communities, one in western Montana and another in northeast Oregon that fall in somewhat different places on the continuum of WUI communities that has been established in prior research. The communities studied here have been analyzed utilizing a mixed methods approach that includes qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group responses and quantitative data gleaned from Likert type questions concerning the practicality of various actions that might be taken to improve local adaptability to fire risk. A key difference in these two communities was found to be the level of acceptance for strategies pertaining to fuels mitigations. That difference in combination with others detected within each community allow an exploration of the implications of these differences in an effort to increase adaptation to fire risk, not only for the study communities but also for broader patterns of difference and adaptation across the WUI.
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- Title
- The "strings attached" to community difference and potential pathways to fire adaptiveness in the wildland urban interface
- Creators
- Mark Christopher Billings
- Contributors
- MATTHEW STEPHEN CARROLL (Advisor) - Washington State University, School of the Environment (CAHNRS)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- School of the Environment (CAHNRS)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900890797301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis