Social science to improve fuels management: a synthesis of research on assessing social acceptability of fuels treatments

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry C. Daniel ◽  
Michael Valdiserri ◽  
Carrie R. Daniel ◽  
Pamela Jakes ◽  
Pamela Jakes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Fuels Management ◽  
Fuels Treatments

Simulating landscape-scale effects of fuels treatments in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra D. Syphard ◽  
Robert M. Scheller ◽  
Brendan C. Ward ◽  
Wayne D. Spencer ◽  
James R. Strittholt
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Prescribed Fire ◽  
Plant Biomass ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Fire Weather ◽  
Fuels Management ◽  
Fuels Treatments

In many coniferous forests of the western United States, wildland fuel accumulation and projected climate conditions increase the likelihood that fires will become larger and more intense. Fuels treatments and prescribed fire are widely recommended, but there is uncertainty regarding their ability to reduce the severity of subsequent fires at a landscape scale. Our objective was to investigate the interactions among landscape-scale fire regimes, fuels treatments and fire weather in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. We used a spatially dynamic model of wildfire, succession and fuels management to simulate long-term (50 years), broad-scale (across 2.2 × 106 ha) effects of fuels treatments. We simulated thin-from-below treatments followed by prescribed fire under current weather conditions and under more severe weather. Simulated fuels management minimised the mortality of large, old trees, maintained total landscape plant biomass and extended fire rotation, but effects varied based on elevation, type of treatment and fire regime. The simulated area treated had a greater effect than treatment intensity, and effects were strongest where more fires intersected treatments and when simulated weather conditions were more severe. In conclusion, fuels treatments in conifer forests potentially minimise the ecological effects of high-severity fire at a landscape scale provided that 8% of the landscape is treated every 5 years, especially if future fire weather conditions are more severe than those in recent years.

Social science to improve fuels management: a synthesis of research on collaboration.

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Sturtevant ◽  
Margaret Ann Moote ◽  
Pamela Jakes ◽  
Anthony S. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Fuels Management

scholarly journals Beyond Social Acceptability: Applying Lessons from CCS Social Science to Support Deployment of BECCS

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clair Gough ◽  
Sarah Mander
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Central Argument

Abstract Purpose of Review This paper assesses social science research relating to BECCS and considers the applicability of research on CCS to BECCS. Recent Findings In recent years, social science research on CCS and BECCS has gone beyond an evaluation of public acceptance to provide a more nuanced analysis of the wider social political, ethical, and governance contexts in which large-scale deployment might be achieved. This raises issues at global, local, and regional scales, requiring a wide array of methods and approaches. Summary Awareness of the scale and urgency needed to act on climate change is growing and the role of BECCS in delivering carbon dioxide removal forms a central argument for the use of this family of technologies. Here, framing becomes a critical factor in how society responds to BECCS technologies and we argue that making the case for BECCS as a means of extending mitigation to make a ‘net zero’ goal achievable could be the key to its acceptable and sustainable deployment.

Social science to improve fuels management: a synthesis of research on the impacts of wildland fires on communities

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen F. McCool ◽  
James Burchfield ◽  
Daniel R. Williams ◽  
Matt Carroll ◽  
Patricia Cohn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Wildland Fires ◽  
Fuels Management
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