Rethinking the Wildland-Urban Interface
What does it even mean to live in a fire-risk zone now?
Shefali Juneja Lakhina, Ph.D. is co-founder of Wonder Labs, a recently formed social enterprise that catalyzes social and ecological innovations with communities on the frontline of climate impacts. Since 2005, Shefali has delivered a range of innovations in disaster resilience policy, programs and research across South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, South-East Europe, Australia, and the United States. She currently leads an NSF-funded national Working Group on ‘Wildfire preparedness and evacuation planning in a pandemic’.
What does it even mean to live in a fire-risk zone now?