Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)

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...

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Autores: Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco, Carmen, Górriz Mifsud, Elena, Prokofieva, Irina, Muys, Bart, Parra, Constanza
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/84006
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102719
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/84006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Socio-ecological resilience
Social innovation
Wildfire
ADF
Bottom-linked social innovation
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spelling Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco, CarmenGórriz Mifsud, ElenaProkofieva, IrinaMuys, BartParra, ConstanzaSocio-ecological resilienceSocial innovationWildfireADFBottom-linked social innovationMediterranean 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 (ADFs, 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.This research received funding from the SIMRA project, funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 677622. During the writing phase it also received funding from the Pyrolife project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme MSCA-ITN2019 – Innovative Training Networks, under grant agreement No 860787.Elsevier2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102719http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/84006reponame:Repositori Obert UdL instname:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)InglésReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102719Forest Policy and Economics, 2022, vol. 138, p. 102719info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/677622info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/860787cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Rodríguez et al., 2022info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/840062026-06-24T12:42:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
title Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
spellingShingle Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco, Carmen
Socio-ecological resilience
Social innovation
Wildfire
ADF
Bottom-linked social innovation
title_short Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
title_full Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
title_fullStr Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
title_full_unstemmed Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
title_sort Blazing the trail: Social innovation supporting wildfire-resilient territories in Catalonia (Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco, Carmen
Górriz Mifsud, Elena
Prokofieva, Irina
Muys, Bart
Parra, Constanza
author Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco, Carmen
author_facet Rodríguez Fernández-Blanco, Carmen
Górriz Mifsud, Elena
Prokofieva, Irina
Muys, Bart
Parra, Constanza
author_role author
author2 Górriz Mifsud, Elena
Prokofieva, Irina
Muys, Bart
Parra, Constanza
author2_role author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Socio-ecological resilience
Social innovation
Wildfire
ADF
Bottom-linked social innovation
topic Socio-ecological resilience
Social innovation
Wildfire
ADF
Bottom-linked social innovation
description 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 (ADFs, 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.
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