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“Not Even Hell Must Look like This”—Print Media Narratives about the October 2017 Wildfires in Portuguese Public-Managed Forests

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dc.contributor.authorFigueiredo, Elisabete
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, Maria Eduarda
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-10T16:12:06Z
dc.date.available2025-12-10T16:12:06Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-05
dc.descriptionArticle number - 236
dc.description.abstractThe unprecedented wildfires of 2017 in Portugal, particularly affecting the Centre Region, resulted in more than 100 deaths and numerous other dramatic socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Due to the unparalleled magnitude of these events, the extent of the burned area, and the catastrophic consequences, forest and fire management were placed at the center stage of public and political concerns, receiving wide mass media attention and amplification likely to shape public opinion and influence policy decisions. Through a quasi-qualitative content analysis approach, this article focuses on the media narratives conveyed by the news issued over two years (N = 1056) by eight newspapers of different periodicities and geographical scopes regarding the wildfires of October 2017 in the Matas do Litoral—coastal public-managed forest areas located in the Centre Region of Portugal. The analysis focuses on three main dimensions: the agents and actors mentioned and their power-related positions, the geographical coverage of the newspapers, and the relevance ascribed to emotions and feelings in the media narratives about the wildfires. The results demonstrate the relevance attributed in media narratives to the views of institutional agents and the negligence of local people’s voices. When particularly highlighting the material impacts of the wildfires, media narratives tended to focus less on people’s emotions and other non-tangible issues. The variation in these narratives according to the geographical scope of the newspapers and the publication time of the news strongly points out the need to address the heterogeneous character of the media coverage of wildfires.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, IP), through the funding of the research project ‘ShareFOREST—Sharing decisions in forests—par- ticipatory methodology for public and stakeholder engagement in the protection and valorization of forests in Portugal’, grant number: PCIF/GRF/0050/2019
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, IP), through the funding of the research project \u2018ShareFOREST\u2014Sharing decisions in forests\u2014par-ticipatory methodology for public and stakeholder engagement in the protection and valorization of forests in Portugal\u2019, grant number: PCIF/GRF/0050/2019. This work was also financially supported by National Funds of the FCT, IP within the project [UIDB/04928/2020].
dc.identifier.citationFigueiredo, E., Ribeiro, C., & Fernandes, M. E. (2024). “Not even hell must look like this”—Print media narratives about the October 2017 Wildfires in Portuguese Public-Managed Forests. Fire, 7(7), 236.
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/fire7070236
dc.identifier.issn2571-6255
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14985
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relationCentre of Applied Research in Management and Economics
dc.relationSharing decisions in forests – participatory methodology for public and stakeholder engagement in the protection and valorisation of forests in Portugal
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85199886891?origin=resultslist
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcontent analysis
dc.subjectmass media coverage
dc.subjectmass media narratives
dc.subjectMatas do Litoral
dc.subjectPortugal
dc.subjectwildfires
dc.title“Not Even Hell Must Look like This”—Print Media Narratives about the October 2017 Wildfires in Portuguese Public-Managed Forestseng
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oaire.citation.endPage23
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oaire.citation.titleFire
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