Bushfire and everyday life : examining the awareness-action gap in changing rural landscapes

Auteurs :
ERIKSEN, C.
GILL, N.

Description :
The notion of everyday life is used critically to examine an apparent gap between bushfire risk awareness and preparedness amongst diverse landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia. Three dilemmas of everyday life are found to underpin the attitudes : costs (monetary and time values), gender roles, and priorities. Using a mixed-methods research approach, the simultaneous cultural construction and material nature of bushfire in everyday life is mapped out through landholders' narratives and actions that embody living with fire on the land.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geoforum, issn : 0016-7185, 2010, vol. 41, n°. 5, p. 814-825, nombre de pages : 12, Références bibliographiques : 89 ref.

Date :
2010

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, New York, NY ; Oxford, Pergamon Press