Wildfire risk management: Building on lessons learned

The contents of this book discussed, from diverse perspectives, how relationships and interactions between people (at several levels of analysis) and between people and landscapes characterized by forests, bush and gardens influence wildfire risk. These relationships develop in landscapes offer everything from employment to amenity value and opportunities for recreation to local residents and visitors to such areas. Occasionally, however, these landscapes present people with hazardous circumstances. That is, when wildfire threatens or occurs. It is on this aspect of the social-ecological relationship (see Chapter 2) that the contents of this book focused. Acknowledging this reality has prompted interest in understanding how people can co-exist with periodically hazardous environments. Collectively, the contributors to this text offered several ways of understanding how long standing and emergent social-ecological relationships provide the context in which people make choices about managing wildfire risk.