scholarly journals Wildland-Urban Interface: Key Issues

EDIS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Annie Hermansen-Baez ◽  
Jennifer Seitz ◽  
Martha C. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
The South ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
The Us ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Us Forest Service

A result of the influx of new residents to the South is an expansion of urban areas into forests and other natural areas, creating areas referred to as the wildland-urban interface. Interface issues of most concern vary from state to state, but some key issues are consistent across the South. the US Forest Service conducted a series of focus groups in 2000. Key issues gleaned from those focus groups and other related sources are described in this 5-page fact sheet written by L. Annie Hermansen-Baez, Jennifer Seitz, and Martha C. Monroe, and published by the UF Department of School of Forest Resources and Conservation, February 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr264

scholarly journals Wildland-Urban Interface: Key Issues

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Annie Hermansen-Baez ◽  
Jennifer Seitz ◽  
Martha C. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The U.S

Revised! FOR-202, a 6-page fact sheet by L. Annie Hermansen-Baez, Jennifer Seitz, and Martha C. Monroe, describes key issues gleaned from a series of focus groups conducted by the U.S. Forest Service in 2000, and other related sources. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, October 2008.

scholarly journals Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Understanding Fire Behavior

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cotton K. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Usda Forest Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Fact Sheet

This document is Circular 1432, one of the series Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface of the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. This fact sheet is funded by the National Fire Plan through the Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service. First published: January 2003.

Land Use in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren McDonell ◽  
Martha C. Monroe ◽  
Gene Boles ◽  
Terri Mashour
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Guiding Principles

Revised! FOR199, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Lauren McDonell, Martha C. Monroe, Gene Boles, and Terri Mashour, outlines the ecological, social, and economic effects of urban sprawl and describes the guiding principles of smart growth and how it can help address these issues. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, July 2008. FOR199/FR260: Land Use in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Forest Management in the Interface: Forest Health

EDIS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Health ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Fact Sheet

Revised! FOR-178, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Robert A. Schmidt, describes forest health concerns in the wildland-urban interface, which include slightly different issues and quite different management solutions than the same concerns in rural forests. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, July 2008.

scholarly journals The Development of an Organizational Safety Culture in the United States Forest Service

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Flores ◽  
Emily Haire
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Organizational Safety Culture

Abstract For over 100 years, the US Forest Service (USFS) has developed initiatives to improve safety outcomes. Herein we discuss the engineered solutions used from 1910 through 1994, when the agency relied on physical science to address the hazards of wildland fire suppression. We then interpret safety initiatives of the subsequent 25 years, as the USFS incorporated social science perspectives both into its understanding of emergency fire incidents and its mitigation of vulnerabilities across all fields of work. Tracing the safety programs using a historical sociology approach, we identify, within the agency’s narrative, three recent developments in its organizational safety culture: cultural awareness, cultural management, and cultural reorganization. This article describes how the development of top-down safety initiatives are questioned and shaped by employees who actively influence the trajectory of a safety culture in the USFS. Study Implications: Safety is a core value of the US Forest Service (USFS), and several safety initiatives, along with employee feedback over the years, have shaped the organizational culture of the agency. To build a robust and world-renowned safety culture in high-risk industries, managers require an understanding of the origins of their organization’s current safety culture. Using a critical social science analytical lens, we discuss how safety initiatives and the development of a safety culture position organizations such as the USFS to move away from reactionary safety initiatives and anchor to employee safety as a core value in order to absorb external shocks, such as rapidly changing ecosystems, development in the wildland urban interface, and larger and more intense wildfires.

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