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2. Blaming the dead: the ethics of accident investigation in wildland firefighting
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thackaberry, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08345
- Notes:
- Pages 265-285 in Steve May, Case studies in organizational communication: ethical perspectives and practices. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California. 402 pages.
3. Building resilience to public safety power shutoffs through public education
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Koundinya, Vikram (author), Chiarella, Cristina (author), Kocher, Susan (author), Kearns, Faith (author), and Drill, Sabrina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2025-02-15
- Published:
- USA: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13539
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 63(1)
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Public Safety Power Shutoff events are being implemented in California to reduce wildfire impacts. We surveyed California residents to identify their information needs and understand the potential role of University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) in power shutoff management. A majority of respondents need information on alternative power sources and community power systems. Most respondents indicated family, friends, and neighbors as the important group to manage power shutoff. UCCE was least used and preferred source for power shutoff information. Our findings reveal a need for Cooperative Extension to play an important role in power shutoff management and educating the public.
4. Fanning the flames? Media coverage during wildfire events and its relation to broader social understandings of the hazard
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Paveglio, Travis (author), Norton, Todd (author), and Carroll, Matthew S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11441
- Journal Title:
- Human Ecology Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1) : 41-52
- Notes:
- 1 page., Analysis of media coverage of wildfires, with special notation of tendency of coverage to assign highest value to the interests of private property owners in the fire region and to assign low value to publicly owned land in the region.
5. Framing forest fires and environmental activism: a storytelling contest about human intervention in nature
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Castello, Enric (author) and Montagut, Marta (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-07
- Published:
- Spain: Universidad de Navarra
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D12991
- Journal Title:
- Communication & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- V.32, N.4
- Notes:
- 16 pages, This article focuses on the processes of sense-making of forest fires in a Mediterranean context. The authors use a textual approach to compare media framing with activist organizational storytelling. The authors conducted a frame analysis in two major daily newspapers in Catalonia (La Vanguardia and El Periódico de Catalunya) during three summers and compared the results with the stories from four leading activist and volunteering organizations that came out of in-depth interviews with their members, one focus group and published materials. The results identified up to five major mainstream media frames, among which were stories focusing on agricultural risk, climate change and weather conditions; imprudent and negligent attitudes; inappropriate fuel management and woodland conditions; and arson. The natural self-regulatory frame was present as part of the discourse of resilience but almost residual. Some journalism focused on the spectacular nature of the events and their dramatic impact, which led to some degree of mediatization of wildfires. The organizations problematized these frames and discussed about the appropriateness of human intervention to prevent forest fires. The results also revealed that activists observed the issue from a broader complexity, replicating frames on “structural responsibility” instead of “individual responsibility” allocation. The authors point out that if wildfires are to be better understood and dealt with more in-depth knowledge is required of different stakeholders’ approaches to preventing forest fires.
6. High Country News: the radioactive waste next door
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hanscom, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11
- Published:
- USA: High Country News
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13024
- Journal Title Details:
- V.53, N.11
- Notes:
- 50 pages
7. Informing the network: improving communication with interface communities during wildland fire
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Taylor, Jonathan G. (author), Gillette, Shana C. (author), Hodgson, Ronald W. (author), Downing, Judith L. (author), Burns, Michele R. (author), Chavez, Deborah J. (author), and Hogan, John T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D11574
- Journal Title:
- Human Ecology Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 198-211
- Notes:
- 14 pages., Online from publisher via open access., Researchers studied fire communications during different stages of two wildfires in southern California. Findings revealed that pre-fire communication planning was particularly effective for smaller fire events and parts of that planning proved invaluable for the large fire event as well. Findings also identified information needs of residents.
8. Social media use reveals public perceptions of prescribed burning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bond, Ludie A. (author), Lundy, Lisa K. (author), Miller, Hope M. (author), Crandall, Chelsey A. (author), Diaz, John M. (author), and Crandall , Raelene M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2024-11-04
- Published:
- USA: Association for Communication Excellence
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13495
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 108(3)
- Notes:
- 20 pages, Public acceptance and support of prescribed burning is critical for its continued use as an essential and effective land management tool in the southeastern U.S. For this practice to continue and expand, land management agencies and private landowners must have public acceptance and support for prescribed fire policy. Without it, they could face increased burn restrictions, as seen in parts of the western U.S., which might lead to decreased acres burned in the Southeast. Most research on public perceptions of prescribed burning has occurred in the West, but that level of research has been lacking in the Southeast. Our research seeks to fill a knowledge gap in a region where prescribed fires are more frequent than wildfires. To determine the current public perceptions of prescribed fire in the Southeast, we examined social media responses following two prescribed burns that resulted in smoke impacts to two major metropolitan areas in Florida. Data were collected and analyzed from social media platforms for the agencies conducting the burns, emergency response and law enforcement agencies, and traditional media. Our research found that Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) were the primary platforms used by the various agencies with Facebook having the higher number of public engagements. This study culminated in recommendations for improving fire science communication to the public to increase acceptance of prescribed fires on public and private lands and improve fire science policy. We recommend further research due to the rapidly changing environment of science communicators’ use of social media to disseminate information.
9. Start tracking wildfires before things get hot: reporter's toolbox
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Davis, Joseph A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: Society of Environmental Journalists, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11721
- Journal Title:
- SEJournal
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(30)
- Notes:
- August 12 issue online from organization website. 3 pages., Identifies some data sources used by firefighting professionals to track wildfires and other incidents nationwide. Advice to environmental reporters about the firefighting web of radio communications: "Respect the tough and risky job firefighters do by not interfering. Do not broadcast on these frequencies. Leave them for firefighters. Just listen."
10. The California tree mortality data collection network — enhanced communication and collaboration among scientists and stakeholders
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Axelson J. (author), Battles J. (author), Bulaon B. (author), Cluck D. (author), Cousins S. (author), Cox L. (author), Estes B. (author), Fettig C. (author), Hefty A. (author), Hushinuma S. (author), Hood S. (author), Kocher S. (author), Mortenson L. (author), Koltunov A. (author), Kuskulis E. (author), Poloni A. (author), Ramirez C. (author), Restaino C. (author), Slaton M. (author), Smith S. (author), and Tubbesing C. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-11
- Published:
- USA: University of California
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10456
- Journal Title:
- California Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- 73(1)
- Notes:
- 10 pages., via online journal, The collaboration helps to coordinate research on the extent and nature of tree mortality and gets the results to forest managers quickly.