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Masters project completed, adding a case study of the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire to the FiRES portfolio
(Photos are from the photo-book “Brand am Riederhorn” (2023), reproduced with the kind permission of the Bitsch and Riederhorn Municipalities.) For the past year, Lena Widmer has focused her Masters project on the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire in Canton Valais, Switzerland. Commonly referred to in the press as the Bitsch wildfire, the Riederhorn more accurately refers…
Christine Eriksen
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Risk, inclusion and belonging in mountain professions
The Geographies of Disasters Group hosted Rachel Reimer who was visiting the University of Bern to share their research on risk, inclusion and belonging in mountain professions with the Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium on 17 September 2024. Rachel began leading a wildfire crew in 2012, and took a step off the fireline and into research and…
Christine Eriksen
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Hot off the press: two book chapters!
I’m excited to share two new book chapters published as part of a fantastic edited collection on the topic of gender and the social dimensions of climate change. These two chapters provided a welcome opportunity to co-write with two talented researchers – Shefali Juneja Lakhina and Rachel Reimer, whose PhD research I have had the…
Christine Eriksen
Dr. Christine Eriksen 