deutero [reflective/learning capacity]: How are people and organizations denoting and worrying about the phenomena you study?
People and organizers are responding to wild and built environment fires by addressing their root causes, creating policy around management and containment, and creating resources and information for public dissemination going forward.
meta [dominant discourses]: What discourses constitute and circulate around the phenomena you study? Where are there discursive risks and gaps?
Discourses: Indigenous environmental management systems, institutional fire ecology, climate change, climate change denial, infrastructure and population density, environmental policy perspectives on fire supression
Risks and gaps: Lack of integration between divergent and parallel discursive regimes
macro [law, political economy]: What laws and economies undergird and shape the power the phenomena you study?
This varies according to country and place, but colonial nations like US, Canada and Australia have practiced fire suppression for about 100 years.
meso [organizations]: What organizations are implicated in the phenomena you study? What geopolitics are in play?
Organizations: State and national environmental management groups, national and state parks, land management organizations, community organizations, housing organizations.
bio [bodies]: What are the bodily effects of the phenomena you study?
Smoke inhalation, destruction of housing, potential injuries and fatalies.
micro [practices]: What (labor, reproductive, communicative) practices constitute and are animated by the phenomena you study?
Farming, forestry, infrastructure, cultural management of lands
nano [language, subjectivity]: What kinds of subjects are produced by and imbricated in the phenomena you study?
Displaced individuals and communities, fire ecologists and scientists, policymakers
edxo [education and expertise]: What modes of expertise and education are imbricated in the phenomena you study?
Ecology, economics, chemistry, metereology
data [data infrastructure]: What data, infrastructure, analytic and visualization capabilities account for and animate the phenomena you study?
Maps (mostly that's it)
techno [roads, transport]: What technical conditions produce and delimit the phenomena you study?
For some, like in Italy, inability to get close to the source of the phenomenon
eco-atmo [ecology, climate]: What ecological and climatic conditions situate the phenomena you study?
Climate change, dry weather, "fire season" etc.
geo [earth systems]: What geological formations, contaminations, resources and scarcities ground the phenomena?
Wildfires, combustion etc.
