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Wildfire communication from municipalities to communities in Portugal: An explo...
Correia, Fernando; Leone, Vittorio; Coughlan, Michael; Paton, Douglas; Buergelt, Petra T.; Tedim, FantinaEnhancing preparedness that enables people and communities to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impacts of a wildfire requires interactive communication. The purpose of this research is to understand how municipalities are communicating with communities regarding wildfires. Municipalities represent the lowest level of governance in Portugal and their responsibility for wildfire risk commu...
The development and use of Community Engagement Theory to inform readiness inte...
Paton, Douglas; Becker, Julia S.; Johnston, David M.; Buergelt, Petra T.; Tedim, Fantina; Jang, Li-juReadiness or preparedness can help reduce the risk posed by future hazard events and allow for effective post-event response and recovery. Given the importance of readiness, a key question is, "How can readiness be facilitated?". Community Engagement Theory (CET), developed from over 20 years of research in and across several countries, can contribute to offering answers to this question. The theory suggests th...
Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts
Tedim, Fantina; Leone, Vittorio; Amraoui, Malik; Bouillon, Christophe; Coughlan, Michael; Delogu, Giuseppe; Fernandes, Paulo; Ferreira, CarmenEvery year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social impacts, but there is no agreement upon terminology to describe them. The concept of extreme wildfire event (EWE) has emerged to bring some c...
Defining extreme wildfire events: difficulties, challenges, and impacts
Tedim, Fantina; Leone, Vittorio; Amraoui, Malik; Bouillon, Christophe; Coughlan, Michael R.; Delogu, Giuseppe M.; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Ferreira, CarmenEvery year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppressioncapabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasingfrequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social impacts,but there is no agreement upon terminology to describe them. The concept of extreme wildfire event(EWE) has emerged to bring some coher...
Enhancing forest fires preparedness in Portugal : the relevance of integrating ...
Paton, Douglas; Tedim, FantinaThe growing incidence, size, intensity and duration of forest fires and escalating economic constraints has made reliance on fire suppression activities as the main fire management strategies in Portugal less tenable. Recognition of this led fire and municipal civil protection agencies to include community preparedness in comprehensive risk management planning. Because this is a new element of risk management i...