Improving social resilience to forest fire from community perspective

Abstract

Recently, terms like social and community resilience have provided new ideas in reducing disaster risks especially in forest fire. However, a comprehensive and in-depth review of community social resilience concerning forest fires is lacking. There is little research investigate whether certain social or community resilience factors can initiate forest fires or whether forest fire prevention positively be influenced by them. To fill this gap, this paper aims to identify and discuss the factors influencing the occurrence of forest fires in the scope of community social resilience. It also provides recommendations for forest fire prevention and enhancing community social resilience to forest fires. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) framework were used to do the systematic review. The results show that there are 4 main factors concerning the social resilience to forest fire such as, social capital, forest fire cultural, community economic, and community characteristics. In addition, this research also suggests future recommendations for preventing forest fires and improving community resilience to forest fires.