UR2020 # Wildfire

   Tuesday, December 1: 14.00 – 15.30 Fire resilience and the urbanising margins Peridot 205 Organizer: University of Edinburgh UR2020 Quick Links Home / Registration FAQs UR Collaboration Travel Preliminary Agenda Main Conference topics Focus day tags Identify Communicate Use AI / Machine learning Data Cities Emerging technologies Risk communication Risk assessment Infrastructure Youth and…

   Tuesday, December 1: 09.00 – 13.30 Catching Fire: New paradigms for wildfire resilience Opal 107 *note: this is a closed event use · wildfire As the climate changes, the world has marked a significant increase in the number of extreme wildland fire disasters. From the United States and Australia, to Portugal and Greece, to…

The conventional multi-hazard framework is still characterized by hazard-silo thinking, i.e. disaster risk reduction (DRR) is seen through the lens of one single hazard, neglecting interactions with other potential hazards and dynamic vulnerabilities.