Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest …
This paper studies wildfires in California from 2000 to 2018 using comprehensive merged data on fires, mortgage and property characteristics, and weather. We find a significant …
their attempt to introduce, describe, and ultimately formalize a new subdiscipline of geography, Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane have created a thorough …
Affluence and vulnerability are often seen as opposite sides of a coin—with affluence generally understood as reducing forms of vulnerability through increased resilience and …
JE Correia - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article advances a novel approach to investigating geographies of settler colonialism and environmental justice through a critical physical geography (CPG) of water scarcity in …
MM Cary - Environment and Society, 2023 - berghahnjournals.com
This review article puts recent social science research on the politics of landscape fire into conversation with scholarship on territory. It argues that contemporary efforts to regulate and …
In this chapter, the Handbook editors introduce the emerging field of Critical Physical Geography. We explain its core tenets and its primary methodological principles and …
C Eriksen, G Simon - … and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines vulnerability in the context of affluence and privilege. It focuses on the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm in California, USA to examine long-term lived experiences of …
N O'Grady, D Shaw - Political Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Scholars have explored how governmental agendas pursued in the name of resilience redistribute the responsibility for attending to emergencies amongst governments and …