阿曼达Stasiewicz
助理教授
环境研究
Current Research Activities
I am a 野火 social scientist whose research focuses on the human dimensions of 野火. My general question is: how do people respond or adapt to their specific 火灾情况下? Some of my current foci include: (1) individual and organizational behavior around 野火 risk management. What influences individual and collective action around 野火 risk management on a property, within a community or neighborhood, 穿过一片风景? (2) the different pathways various communities take to adapt to their changing 野火 risk. What does a fire-adapted community look like in different 社会生态空间? What are the novel approaches people are taking that might 在其他地方有用? (3) 野火 evacuation needs and planning: what are the challenges individuals are facing with evacuation? How do we create more evacuation planning and information for dynamic and uncertain situations like a 野火 event? (4)火灾 management suppression capacity: high-activity fire years are stretching our suppression 资源薄. How are our 野火 and fire service organizations grappling with 这些变化?
Research 连接s to Current 事件
野火 has always been a key phenomenon in the US West. Over 120 years of 野火 suppression, land management practices often focused on excluding fire from landscapes, and our changing climate create a scenario where 野火s are often resulting in disasters rather than performing the ecological services we need them to. “好火灾” are an important part of keeping many of our landscapes and ecosystems healthy, even in areas where people live in wildland areas. We have a lot of work to do in the 野火 科学的世界! We need adaptation solutions to help diverse communities better live with current 野火 risk and conditions. We need to generate knowledge and scientific tools to keep our firefighters, emergency personnel, and residents safe during 野火 events, reduce the number of 野火 disasters, and mitigate 野火 impacts. 而且, we need to foster a space where "good" fire and landscape management practices can returned to our fire-adapted lands to reduce the risk of "bad" fires in the future. Integrating long-dismissed voices, like the land stewardship and cultural practices of indigenous persons and nations, is another part of restoring and learning how to "live with fire" into the future.
Personal 连接s to Research
Studying plant and animal adaptation and evolution to their environments, from remote islands to tropical rainforests, consistently led me to a lingering question: what 人们扮演的角色? How people and organizations adapt (or don't adapt) to their landscape is sometimes the most complicated part of our environmental questions. 野火 presents a dynamic and chaotic space for exploring questions around human behavior, 适应和改变. The biggest inspiration for my research comes from the communities and individuals I meet during my research. Spending time with people from all walks of life--from 野火 professionals to ranchers and loggers--and seeing the landscape and 野火 problem from their perspective helps me to push my science further. 他们的 stories, experiences, and creativity as they push the frontiers of 野火 adaptation is what motivates me to figure out how academia can help meet some of the challenges people living in fire-pr一个 landscapes face.
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关键字
human dimensions of 野火; approaches to 野火 risk management; community environmental adaptation; fire-adapted communities; individual and cooperative behavior; socio-ecological communities; forest, rangeland, and fire policy.
