Jaime Senabre
Director of SINIF.
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| University of Alicante, Spain. |
| Abstract |
The concern for the environment is part of the discourse of societies. The Planet is immersed in an ecological crisis in
whose nucleus is the human being. The way in which humans are interacting with the natural environment is aggravating
environmental deterioration, which is contributing to a breakdown of the global climate balance. The interpretation of the
role that the human being occupies in the causality of disasters needs an honest exercise of analysis. Every year, thousands
of hectares of forest burn around the world. The emissions of polluting gases into the atmosphere discharged by wildland
fires constitute a global environmental problem that causes, directly or indirectly, human and economic losses, as well as a
degradation of the air we breathe. In the Mediterranean countries, with Spain and Portugal at the head, 70% of the forest fires
in Europe occur. The studies on perception of risks trying to analyze the effective and ethical relationships that a determined
community establishes with the environment with which it interacts and lives. The attachment and the value of the place of
residence are part of the environmental perception, a topic that is of interest to social psychology. In the present study, we try
to analyze how citizens of the province of Alicante perceive the risk of wildland fire. This area of southeastern Spain has been
historically punished by fire and in which, according to the surveyed population, 50% of citizens suffer the impact of forest
fires every year. Some of our findings determine that the citizens' concern about wildland fires is very high, being perceived
as a product of society, an aspect that invites us to reflect. Another outstanding aspect that emerges from our study is the
consideration of citizens to establish greater restrictions on the use of fire as a fire prevention measure.
Citation: Senabre, Jaime (2018). Psychosocial perception of wildland fires in the province of Alicante (Spain). In Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology, Vol. 8, pp 53. DOI: 10.4172/2161-0525-C3-017
Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology | ISSN: 2161-0525 | Volume 8
17th International Conference on Environmental Toxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment. Chicago, USA.
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