Abstract Between January 1 and February 10, 2017, the central southern area of Chile faced several mega-fires events that were considered the second largest of the history, 518,174 ha were affected. The devastating consequences of this fire also include the loss of 12 human lives, as well as an enormous financial cost in the fight against fires. Due to the increase in global mega-fires and the increase in industrial forest plantations during the last decades in southern Chile, it is relevant to analyse how this industry interact with the occurrence of these events and their socio-environmental consequences. We contrasted the content of public and private sector stakeholders discourses with four discursive elements of a spatial nature of interest, Extension and continuity of forestry plantations, native ecosystems damage, affectation of non-forestry land cover and proximity to localities. The results show strong discrepancies for the discourses of mega-fires effects and consequences between the different stakeholders. Two relevant emerging issues were identified, the biodiversity value of native ecosystems affected as a forgotten element in the discourses of environmental-related government agencies and the role played to promote mega-fires by the forestry plantations spatial structure which is seen in the opposite way depending of stakeholder.

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2017 年智利特大火灾：森林种植区社会代表性分析

摘要 2017 年 1 月 1 日至 2 月 10 日，智利中南部地区发生了多起被认为是历史上第二大的特大火灾事件，受灾面积达 518,174 公顷。这场火灾的破坏性后果还包括 12 人丧生，以及扑灭火灾的巨大经济成本。由于智利南部过去几十年全球特大火灾的增加和工业林种植园的增加，分析该行业如何与这些事件的发生及其社会环境后果相互作用是相关的。我们将公共和私营部门利益相关者话语的内容与感兴趣的空间性质、林业种植园的扩展和连续性、本地生态系统破坏、非林业土地覆盖和邻近地区的影响。结果表明，不同利益相关者之间对特大火灾影响和后果的论述存在很大差异。确定了两个相关的新问题，作为环境相关政府机构话语中被遗忘的元素受到影响的本地生态系统的生物多样性价值，以及以相反方式看待的林业种植园空间结构在促进特大火灾方面发挥的作用取决于利益相关者的。