Burning anticipation: Wildfire, risk mitigation and simulation modelling in Victoria, Australia. (October 2016)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Burning anticipation: Wildfire, risk mitigation and simulation modelling in Victoria, Australia. (October 2016)
- Main Title:
- Burning anticipation: Wildfire, risk mitigation and simulation modelling in Victoria, Australia
- Authors:
- Neale, Timothy
- Other Names:
- MacLeavy Julie guest-editor.
Roberts Susan guest-editor.
Strauss Kendra guest-editor. - Abstract:
- Wildfire is a global environmental 'problem' with significant socioeconomic and socionatural impacts that does not lend itself to simple technical fixes (Gill et al., 2013: 439). In Australia, a country with a pronounced history of disastrous landscape fires, these impacts are expected to increase as the peri-urban population continues to grow and the climate continues to change. This paper draws upon the burgeoning literature on anticipatory regimes to analyse an in-depth case study of a government pilot in the highly fire-prone State of Victoria, where practitioners have utilised a simulation model to measure and intervene in the distribution of wildfire risk. The pilot presents the 'calculative collective device' (Callon and Muniesa, 2005) of wildfire management at a moment of what I label 'calculative rearticulation', wherein figurations of the future are rebooted, reconstructed or recalibrated; such moments, I suggest, can reorient the institutionally conservative spaces – such as environmental or risk management – providing opportunities for practitioners and others to interrogate the existing distribution of hazards and anticipatory interventions. Through such opportunities 'hazardous' more-than-human landscapes can be imagined otherwise.
- Is Part Of:
- Environment and planning. Volume 48:Number 10(2016)
- Journal:
- Environment and planning
- Issue:
- Volume 48:Number 10(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 48, Issue 10 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 10
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0048-0010-0000
- Page Start:
- 2026
- Page End:
- 2045
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10
- Subjects:
- Anticipation -- Australia -- calculation -- risk -- wildfire
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http://www.pion.co.uk/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0308518X16651446 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0308-518X
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