Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

Due to anthropogenic factors (land cover change and vegetation replacement to pinus/eucalyptus crops) and the impact of climate change (increase in drought and water scarcity), Mediterranean ecosystems are more exposed to the severity of forest fires and mega-fires have been occurring with more frequency in the Anthropocene. We conducted semi-structured interviews inquiring about practices and attitudes before/after the megafire of 2017 from key actors belonging to the rural communities of Quillón, Florida, and Yumbel in Chile during 2018.The results of the interviews were analyzed through discourse analysis in Atlas. ti software to obtain answers about the management from the Government Agencies and key actors at the landscape level. The findings show that the interviewees did not observe changes, indicating that a thorough work has not been done to include this perspective in the ecological and social restoration processes after wildfires, finally have not been achieving more resilient localities and more engaged communities