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High-risk, high-uncertainty events like earthquakes tend to fall out of view when we are occupied with more predictable seasonal events like wildfires, which have very visible effects on our lives.
Instead of asking about optimism, it’s time to ask what we as citizens are going to do about climate change.
Canada’s emergency management system is poorly funded and lacks consistent attention between disasters. This chronic underfunding has undermined public confidence and trust in emergency management.
Industrial-sized confinement farming systems pose massive challenges during hurricanes, floods or wildfires, including significant public health, animal welfare and socio-economic implications.
Removing trees killed by fires can have long-term consequences for wildlife.
Unstable funding, social distancing and the likelihood that other countries won’t be able to help — these all raise the potential of a nightmarish scenario.
Laws and policies that marginalize Indigenous people and communities make these same people vulnerable to disaster.
Canada’s boreal region faces bigger, hotter and more frequent wildfires that are increasingly unpredictable, but it lacks an investment in fire science that could help keep communities safe.
And wildfires rage along the West Coast of North America, parents should know the impact on their children’s health, and how to protect them.
We think of Canada as a water-rich country, but we are not immune to water shortages or disasters. With some advance planning, Canada can avoid a water catastrophe.
Record-breaking wildfires made headlines around the world in 2017. Fire intensity will increase in Canada in the future with climate change, but we can invest in tools to improve the outcome.
Wildfires amid climate change may spark a radical shift in forest habitats and wildlife. They aren’t just a destructive force of man and nature. They’re a key factor in forest ecosystem renewal.
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Athabasca University
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Associate professor, Integrative biology, University of Guelph
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Professor of Wildland Fire, University of Alberta
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Research Scientist, Wildfire Behaviour, University of Toronto
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Distinguished Professor and Director, Global Water Futures Programme, University of Saskatchewan
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Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Anthropology Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Conservation Biology, University of British Columbia
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Master’s Student, Conservation Biology, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
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Associate Professor and Chair of Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies Department, Brandon University
