The lost summer : community experiences of large wildfires in Trinity County, California
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Date
2011
Authors
Davis, Emily Jane
Moseley, Cassandra
Jakes, Pamela J.
Nielsen-Pincus, Max
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
As wildfires are increasing in scale and duration,
and communities are increasingly located
where these wildfires are occurring, we
need a clearer understanding of how large wildfires
affect economic and social well being. These wildfires
can have complex impacts on rural public lands communities.
They can threaten homes, public health,
and livelihoods. Wildfires can burn timber, make
recreation and tourism unappealing, and affect agricultural
production. Yet suppression of large wildfires
involves significant government spending and
mobilization of considerable human resources. While
wildfires themselves may displace normal economic
activity during the fire, the process of suppression can
create other types of economic activities. However,
community social impacts are also intertwined with
economic impacts in significant ways.
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16 pages