Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Reducing Wildfire Hazards in the Wildland Urban Interface
Joint Fire Science Program, National Interagency Fire Center. 2009. Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Reducing Wildfire Hazards in the Wildland Urban Interface. Fire Science Digest. (5):1-12
The 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act calls for local communitites in the wildland-urban interface to collaborate on developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans to reduce their wildfire hazard. To craft a successful CWPP, a community must collaborate effectively. A Joint Fire Science Program-sponsored research team studied 15 communitites as they developed CWPPs. They found that social networks, learning communities, and community capacity were key indicators of success, and that working together on a CWPP can enhance a community's capacity to collaborate, helping it address future challenges more skillfully.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Joint Fire Science Program, National Interagency Fire Center
- Units
- GLAC
- Keywords
- Community Wildfire Protection Plans, fire science, Healthy Forests Restoration Act, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface