Improving wildfire management outcomes: shifting the paradigm of wildfire from simple to complex risk

• Published in: Journal of environmental planning and management Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 909 - 927
• Main Authors: Essen, Maureen, McCaffrey, Sarah, Abrams, Jesse, Paveglio, Travis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 16.04.2023
• Subjects: complexity; governance; risk; stakeholders; wildfire; wildfire risk; wildfires; wildland fire management

Numerous wildfire management agencies and institutions rely primarily on simple risk approaches to wildfire that focus on technical risk assessments that do not reflect the complexity of contemporary wildfire risk. This review paper argues that such insufficiently complex conceptualizations of risk,...