TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Burning anticipation: wildfire, risk mitigation and simulation modelling in Victoria, Australia
JO  - Environment and planning A
A1  - Neale, Timothy
SP  - 2026
EP  - 2045
VL  - 48
IS  - 10
N2  - Wildfire is a global environmental 'problem' with significant socioeconomic and socionatural impacts that does not lend itself to simple technical fixes (Gill et al., 2013: 439). In Australia, a country with a pronounced history of disastrous landscape fires, these impacts are expected to increase as the peri-urban population continues to grow and the climate continues to change. This paper draws upon the burgeoning literature on anticipatory regimes to analyse an in-depth case study of a government pilot in the highly fire-prone State of Victoria, where practitioners have utilised a simulation model to measure and intervene in the distribution of wildfire risk. The pilot presents the 'calculative collective device' (Callon and Muniesa, 2005) of wildfire management at a moment of what I label 'calculative rearticulation', wherein figurations of the future are rebooted, reconstructed or recalibrated; such moments, I suggest, can reorient the institutionally conservative spaces - such as environmental or risk management - providing opportunities for practitioners and others to interrogate the existing distribution of hazards and anticipatory interventions. Through such opportunities 'hazardous' more-than-human landscapes can be imagined otherwise.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0308-518X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16651446
ID  - ref1
ER  -