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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.008
	Flame and fortune in California: The material and political dimensions of vulnerability
	Simon G.L.; Dooling S.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:6
英文摘要	This paper seeks to clarify and refine the assertion that vulnerability exists as both a material, condition and discursive construct. Building off of previous scholarship analyzing the production of, vulnerabilities, we present a conceptual framework that illuminates how material vulnerabilities are translated into political vulnerabilities and ossified in the policy realm. We argue that specifying components of, and relationships between, the material and political aspects of vulnerability will result in a more sophisticated articulation of vulnerability as a recursive process. In order to achieve this level of analysis we propose a spatial-historical analytic approach that blends point-in-time and, empirically driven analysis with robust historical and political economic analysis. We use the largest urban wildfire - in terms of dwellings lost - in California's history to show how the persistent disconnection between material and political forms of vulnerability has, over time, resulted in contradictory landscapes where homes are intentionally placed in landscapes vulnerable to wildfires with reduced fire protection. Spatial historical analysis of the Tunnel Fire reveals how representations of vulnerability oftentimes deviate from lived experiences, engendering responses of exploitation, ignorance, mobilization and resistance. This framework also recognizes how these responses can create new vulnerabilities while also maintaining, deepening and diminishing existing material conditions. Finally, relational analysis illuminates how factors generating vulnerability in fire areas also contribute to and reinforce vulnerabilities within other parts of cities like Oakland, California. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Environmental change; Governance; Materiality; Spatial history; Urban political ecology; Vulnerability; Wildfire
学科领域	building; conceptual framework; empirical analysis; environmental change; exploitation; governance approach; mobilization; political economy; vulnerability; wildfire; California; Oakland; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	building; conceptual framework; empirical analysis; environmental change; exploitation; governance approach; mobilization; political economy; vulnerability; wildfire; California; Oakland; United States
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117875
作者单位	University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 173364, Campus Box 172, Denver, CO 80217-3364, United States; University of Texas, Austin, School of Architecture and the Environmental Science Institute, 1 University Station B7500, Austin, TX 78712-0222, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Simon G.L.,Dooling S.. Flame and fortune in California: The material and political dimensions of vulnerability[J],2013,23(6).
APA	Simon G.L.,&Dooling S..(2013).Flame and fortune in California: The material and political dimensions of vulnerability.Global Environmental Change,23(6).
MLA	Simon G.L.,et al."Flame and fortune in California: The material and political dimensions of vulnerability".Global Environmental Change 23.6(2013).