Politics of urban development and wildfires in California and Turkey

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

BALABAN, U.

Dept. of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Univ., Ankara, Turquie

FU, A.S.

Anthropology/Sociology Dept., Kutztown, Etats-Unis

Description :
This paper is a comparative analysis that relates the politics of land use in wildland–urban interfaces (WUIs) to the divergent firefighting strategies in California and Turkey. It explains that the decentralized strategy in California allows property prices to be distinguished between areas of low and high protection, and commodifies safety as a form of investment regulating the market prices of land. Conversely, in Turkey, the tendency toward centralization of firefighting is a part of the composite political strategy to open new land for development by completing the hitherto unfinished cadastral records of the WUIs.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 4, p. 820-836, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion

Langue :
Anglais