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Community adaptation to bushfire in a changing climate: Developing a toolkit for local government in Tasmania

TitleCommunity adaptation to bushfire in a changing climate: Developing a toolkit for local government in Tasmania
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Conference2012
AuthorsChaplin, S, Fairbrother, P
Conference NameIAWF 3rd Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Seattle, WA, 17-19 April 2012
Pagination83-86
PublisherIAWF
Abstractto capture the dimensions of social life at a local level (Wellman, 1999). It also draws attention to the way understandings are developed in relation to the specificity of localities in the context of disaster (Paton and Jackson, 2002). Thus the term community refers to many aspects of social life, spatiality, symbolic reference, and political decision making and social activity. Despite the divergent uses of the concept of community, there are three main ways of understanding community, which encompass much of the available sociological research: (i) community as locality; (ii) community as a shared sense of belonging; and (iii) community as a social network (Blackshaw, 2010).
URLhttp://www.iawfonline.org/pdf/3rd%20Human%20Dimensions%20Conference%20Proceedings%20-%20FINAL.pdf
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