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The devastating wildfire that destroyed the historic Maui town of Lahaina was still making headlines when Yellowknife issued an evacuation order.
As the mass evacuation of Yellowknife unfolds, the needs of minority populations will emerge. Past experiences indicate emergency officials may not be ready to meet the needs of a diverse population.
Effective collaboration may be a key to minimizing impacts of the growing wildfire season in Canada.
North America’s boreal forests have been burning a lot, probably more and more over the past 60 years. Yet the long-term trend indicates that they are burning less than they were 150 years ago.
Blaming flooding on an act of God wrongly absolves government and developers of their liability for poor decisions that unfairly burden taxpayers.
From heat stroke to asthma to lyme disease, climate change already poses a serious health risk.
Where we build our communities and how we build them has an outsize role in our vulnerability to wildfire.
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Professor in Environmental Science/Sustainability Science, Stockholm University
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Clinical associate professor, Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
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Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Dimensions of Water Resources and Water Resilience, Brock University
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Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Chair, Ecofiscal Commission and Director, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Political Science, Research Coordinator in Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Uppsala University
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Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Research fellow, Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral fellow
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Assistant Professor, Environment, University of Waterloo