ASN in Action: Wildfire Risk and Management

Wildfire Risk and Management

Fire has always been part of how landscapes change. What's shifting is where it burns, how it behaves, and who is left to make sense of the aftermath — ecologically, socially, and psychologically. This closing session of the Risk & Intelligence cycle brings together three vantage points on wildfire that rarely share a room: a region historically left out of fire science, a global epicenter of fire-driven degradation, and the human systems tasked with responding when fire arrives.

The central question this session sits with: what does it take to build fire knowledge and fire preparedness in places, communities, and disciplines that haven't traditionally been asked to hold it?

As with every session in this series, our speakers come as contributors thinking alongside the group — not as holders of settled answers. The goal is to surface the open questions that can shape longer-term research and…