Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco Carmen, Górriz-Mifsud Elena, Prokofieva Irina, Muys Bart, Parra Constanza
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Carretera de Sant Llorenç, 25280 Solsona, Spain.
European Forest Institute- Governance Unit, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
For Policy Econ. 2022 May;138:102719. doi: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102719.
Mediterranean territories have co-evolved and been shaped by fire throughout history. However, global environmental change conditions are increasing the size, intensity and severity of wildfires, which have gone from a regular natural disturbance to a serious threat for civil protection, surpassing firefighting capacities. Therefore, building resilience in fire-prone territories is an increasingly relevant policy and management objective. However, the notion of resilience has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to key social issues such as socio-political dynamics, power imbalances and societal change. At the same time, social science contributions to wildfire research are still rather limited. In this paper, we bridge social innovation theory to resilience theory in order to create a territorially embedded and socially sensitive framework for assessing socio-ecological resilience. From this perspective, we then examine how Forest Defence Groups ( by their Catalan acronym) have evolved from grassroots, bottom-up initiatives to well-established bottom-linked institutions and we evaluate their contributions to socio-ecological resilience in the territories where they operate. Our results show that ADFs contribute in several aspects to socio-ecological resilience and that the pave the way for opening up spaces of dialogue and collaboration through which local communities can engage with the issues that directly affect them, such as wildfires.
地中海地区在历史上一直与火灾共同演变并受其影响。然而，全球环境变化正在增加野火的规模、强度和严重性，野火已从常规的自然干扰演变为对民防的严重威胁，超出了消防能力。因此，在易发生火灾的地区增强恢复力是一项越来越重要的政策和管理目标。然而，恢复力的概念因对社会政治动态、权力失衡和社会变革等关键社会问题关注不足而受到批评。与此同时，社会科学对野火研究的贡献仍然相当有限。在本文中，我们将社会创新理论与恢复力理论相结合，以创建一个地域嵌入且对社会敏感的框架来评估社会生态恢复力。从这个角度出发，我们接着研究森林防御组织（按其加泰罗尼亚语首字母缩写）是如何从基层的、自下而上的倡议演变为成熟的基层关联机构的，并评估它们对其运作地区社会生态恢复力的贡献。我们的结果表明，森林防御组织在几个方面对社会生态恢复力做出了贡献，并且为开辟对话与合作空间铺平了道路，通过这些空间，当地社区能够参与应对直接影响他们的问题，如野火。
