Abstract
A key challenge in the United States is how to manage wildfire risk across boundaries and scales, as roles, responsibilities, and ability to act are distributed among actors in ways that do not always incentivize collective action. In this review paper, we provide several conceptual contributions to the understanding of wildfire management through the application of boundary spanning frameworks. This includes: (1) a characterization of four major types of boundaries in managing wildfire risk; (2) a review of major boundary spanning features and frameworks that integrate them; and (3) consideration of current and potential applications of the boundary spanning construct to the domain of wildfire management. Our goal is to advance knowledge of how actors in this arena may overcome “parallel play” to more collectively address wildfire risk. We generate new thinking about wildfire management, and offer potential implications and questions for future research, policy, and management.
Highlights
Given evidence of the enduring challenges to collective action in wildfire risk management, we suggest a need for new understandings in response to the question: What approaches may more effectively catalyze coordination among actors involved in managing wildfire risk to transcend their state of parallel play? As recent reflective scholarship notes, there are numerous social science concepts related to this question, yet a lack of bridging among them to help answer it [30]
This paper has provided several conceptual contributions to understanding of wildfire risk management and the challenges of spanning boundaries in that domain
We offered a characterization of four major types of boundaries in governing wildfire risk, suggesting that in addition to landownership, there are organizational, functional, and conceptual boundaries that challenge collective action
Summary
Our goal is to advance knowledge of how actors in this arena may overcome “parallel play” to more collectively address wildfire risk
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