@article {2040,
	title = {Bushfire and everyday life: Examining the awareness-action {\textquoteleft}gap{\textquoteright} in changing rural landscapes},
	journal = {Geoforum},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2010},
	month = {10/2010},
	pages = {814 - 825},
	abstract = {<p>In this paper we use the notion of {\textquoteleft}everyday life{\textquoteright} to critically examine an apparent {\textquoteleft}gap{\textquoteright} between bushfire risk awareness and preparedness amongst diverse landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia. Landholders were found to bring their own agency to bushfire preparedness in the relationships between everyday procedures, dilemmas, and tradeoffs. Consequently, regardless of landholders{\textquoteright} awareness levels, attitudes towards bushfire and natural resource management influence if, how, and to what extent landowners prepare for bushfires. We argue that not only is the {\textquoteleft}gap{\textquoteright} complex but also paradoxical in that it is both evident in, and constituted by, landholder attitudes and action and simultaneously dissolved in their practices and decision-making in everyday life. Three dilemmas of everyday life in particular were found to underpin these attitudes: costs (in terms of monetary and time values), gender roles, and priorities. Using a mixed-methods research approach, this simultaneous cultural construction and material nature of bushfire in everyday life is mapped out through landholders{\textquoteright} narratives and actions that embody living with fire on the land. The place of bushfire in landholders{\textquoteright} everyday life has direct relevance to recent international discussions of the vulnerability of the growing number of people living in bushfire-prone rural-urban interface areas.</p>},
	issn = {167185},
	doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.004},
	author = {Eriksen, Christine and Gill, Nicholas}
}
