Tag: diversity
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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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It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project!
As of October 1, 2025, the FiRES project has a new institutional home at ETH Zürich. I am excited to be back in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, which is hosting the FiRES project after its initial two years at the University of Bern. FiRES’ fieldwork and collaborations continue unabated. The team…
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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Watch the closing plenary session of the AFE Fire Congress 2023 online!
Did you miss the awesome closing plenary session at the AFE Fire Congress 2023? Fret not! The Association for Fire Ecology has made the recording available online. I talk from 9-39 mins, followed by Chief Royal Ramey from the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, and Ryan Reed and Kyle Trefny from the FireGeneration Collaborative. Please…
Christine Eriksen
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From natural hazards to cyber resilience: moving beyond traditional risk analysis
Affluence and vulnerability are often seen as opposite sides of a coin – with affluence generally understood as reducing forms of vulnerability through increased resilience and adaptive capacity. However, during the past ten years, my research with a range of colleagues has consistently highlighted the need to re-examine this dynamic relationship in the context of…
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
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