Dr. Christine Eriksen

Peer Reviewed Articles

Simon, G., O’Grady, N., Grove, K., Eriksen, C., Chmutina, K., Emmenegger, R., Raju, E., Ay, D., Lüthi, S., Prior, T., Uyttewaal, K., & Zeffiri, F. (2025) A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking with Disasters, Geographical Journal, e70057.

Hankins, D.L., Bisbing S.M., Cardinal Christianson, A., Clark, S., Desautel, C., Eriksen, C., Fulé, P.Z., Hessburg, P.F., Magee, C., Stephens, S.L., Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Waconda, J., & M.C. (2025) Indigenous Stewardship Rights and Opportunities to Recenter Indigenous Fire, Fire Ecology, 21(74).

Reimer, R. & Eriksen, C. (2025) Feeling Safe Enough: Psychological safety in the mountain guiding and avalanche profession, Journal of Rural Studies, 120, 103834.

Eriksen, C. & Simon, G. (2025) Governing Layers of Shifting Sands: Subterranean hazards, unfolding catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation. GEO: Geography and Environment, 12, e70014.

Eriksen, C., Kirschner, J., Simon, G. L., O’Grady, N., Uyttewaal, K., Lüthi, S., Prior, T., Zeffiri, F., Emmenegger, R., Ay, D., Chmutina, K., Raju, E., & Grove, K. (2025) From Rigidity Traps towards Reparative Disaster Governance and Management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 125, 105603.

Eriksen, C. & Simon, G. (2025) Social Resilience Research on Climate-related Hazards: Trends, accomplishments and shortcomings, PLOS Climate, 4(4), e0000496, 2025.

Green, A., McKinnon, S., Daly, M., Boehme, T., Cooper, P. & Eriksen, C. (2024) Community-led disaster resilience initiatives: A case study, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 39(4), 97-104.

Eriksen, C. (2024) Coexisting with Wildfire: Strengthening collective capacity by changing the status quo. Fire Ecology, 20(59). You can also listen to a 10-min conversation about this paper in Episode 34 of AFE’s Fire Ecology Chats podcast series.

Dunn Cavelty, M., Eriksen, C. & Scharte, B. (2023) Making Cyber Security more Resilient: Adding social considerations to technological fixes. Journal of Risk Research, 26(7), 801-814.

McKinnon, S. & Eriksen, C. (2023) Engaging with the Home-in-ruins: Memory, temporality and the unmaking of home after fire, Social and Cultural Geography, 24(2), 311-326.

Eriksen, C. (2022) Editorial: Introducing the New “Fire Social Science” Section of the journal Fire. Fire, 5(5), 157.

Haworth, B., McKinnon, S. & Eriksen, C. (2022) Advancing Disaster Geographies: From marginalisation to inclusion of gender and sexual minorities, Geography Compass.

Booth, K., Lucas, C., Eriksen, C., de Vet, E., Tranter, B., French, S., Young, T. & MacKinnon, S. (2022) House and Contents Underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80, 103209.

Eriksen, C. (2022) Wildfires in the Atomic Age: Mitigating the Risk of Radioactive Smoke, Fire. 5(1):2.

Eriksen, C. & de Vet, E. (2021) Untangling Insurance, Rebuilding, and Wellbeing in Bushfire Recovery. Geographical Research, 59(2), 228-241.

de Vet, E., Eriksen, C. & McKinnon, S. (2021) Dilemmas, Decision-Making, and Disasters: Emotions of parenting, safety, and rebuilding in bushfire recovery. Area, 53(2), 283-291.

Eriksen, C., G. Simon, F. Roth, S. J. Lakhina, B. Wisner, C. Adler, F. Thomalla, A. Scolobig, K. Brady, M. Bründl, F. Neisser, M. Grenfell, L. Maduz & T. Prior (2020) Rethinking the Interplay between Affluence and Vulnerability to aid Climate Change Adaptive Capacity. Climatic Change, 162(1), 25-39.

Eriksen, C., McKinnon, S. & de Vet, E. (2020) Why Insurance Matters: Insights from research post-disaster. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 35(4), 42-47.

de Vet, E. & Eriksen, C. (2019) When Insurance and Goodwill are not Enough: Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) Ratings, Risk Calculations and Disaster Resilience in Australia, Australian Geographer, 51(1), 35-51.

Eriksen, C. (2019) Coping, Caring and Believing: The Embodied Work of Disaster Recovery Workers, Emotion, Space and Society, 32(100592).

de Vet, E., Eriksen, C., Booth, K. & French, S. (2019) An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from response and recovery to mitigation for an insurable future, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 10(2), 179-192.

Reimer, R. & Eriksen, C. (2018) The Wildfire Within: Gender, leadership, and wildland fire culture, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 715-726.

Eriksen, C. (2019) Negotiating Adversity with Humour: A Case Study of Wildland Firefighter Women, Political Geography, 68, 139-145.

Sword-Daniels, V., Eriksen, C., Hudson-Doyle, E., Alaniz, R., Adler, C., Schenk, T. & Vallance, S. (2018) Embodied Uncertainty: Living with Complexity and Natural Hazards, Journal of Risk Research, 21(3), 290-307.

Eriksen, C. & Wilkinson, C. (2017) Examining Perceptions of Luck in Post-bushfire Sense-making in Australia, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 24, 242-250.

Penman, T., Eriksen, C., Horsey, B., Green, A., Cooper, P. & Bradstock, R. (2017) Retrofitting for Wildfire Resilience: What is the Cost?, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 21, 1-10.

Eriksen, C. & Simon, G. (2017) The Affluence-Vulnerability Interface: Intersecting Scales of Risk, Privilege and Disaster, Environment and Planning A, 49(2), 293-313.

Eriksen, C. (2017) Research Ethics, Trauma and Self-care: Reflections on Disaster Geographies, Australian Geographer, 48(2), 273-278.

Eriksen, C., G. Waitt, & C. Wilkinson. (2016) Gendered Dynamics of Wildland Firefighting in Australia. Society and Natural Resources, 29(11), 1296-1310.

Eriksen, C., Penman, T., Horsey, B., & Bradstock, R. (2016) Wildfire Survival Plans in Theory and Practice, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25(4), 363-377.

Penman, T., Eriksen, C., Horsey, B., & Bradstock, R. (2016) How Much Does it Cost Residents to Prepare their Property for Wildfire?, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 16, 88-98.

Whittaker, J., Eriksen, C. & Haynes, K. (2016) Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, Geographical Research, 54(2), 203-215.

Wilkinson, C., Eriksen, C. & Penman T. (2016) Into the Firing Line: Civilian Ingress during the 2013 Red October Bushfires, Australia. Natural Hazards, 80(1), 521-538.

Wilkinson, C. & Eriksen, C. (2015) Fire, Water and Everyday Life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate, Fire Safety Journal, 78, 102-110.

Eriksen, C. & Ditrich, T. (2015) The relevance of mindfulness practice for trauma-exposed disaster researchers, Emotion Space and Society, 17, 63-69.

Gill, N., Dun, O., Brennan-Horley, C., & Eriksen, C. (2015) Landscape Preferences, Amenity and Bushfire Risk in New South Wales, Australia, Environmental Management, 56(3), 738-753.

Eriksen, C. & Hankins, D. (2014) The Retention, Revival and Subjugation of Indigenous Fire Knowledge through Agency Fire Fighting in Eastern Australia and California, USA, Society and Natural Resources, 27(12), 1288-1303.

Eriksen, C. & Head, L. (2014) Guest Editorial: Geographical Fire Research in Australia – Review and Prospects, Geographical Research, 52(1), 1-5.

Eriksen, C. (2014) Gendered Risk Engagement: Challenging the Embedded Vulnerability, Social Norms and Power Relations in Conventional Australian Bushfire Education, Geographical Research, 52(1), 23-33.

The World Social Science (WSS) fellows on Risk Interpretation and Action: Doyle, Khan, Adler, Alaniz, Athayde, Lin, Saunders, Schenk, Sosa-Rodriguez, Sword-Daniels, Akanle, Baudoin, Chang, De Bruin, Djalante, Eriksen, Lee, Mishra, Okorie, Olanya, Perlaviciute, Ruiz-Rivera, Vallance, Xie, and Yin. (2014) Reporting on the Seminar – Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA): Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty, Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 18(1), 27-37.

Prior, T. & Eriksen, C. (2013) Wildfire Preparedness, Community Cohesion and Social-Ecological Systems, Global Environmental Change, 23(6), 1575-1586.

Eriksen, C. & Prior, T. (2013) Defining the Importance of Mental Preparedness for Risk Communication and Residents Well-Prepared for Wildfire, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 6, 87-97.

Penman, T.D., C. Eriksen, R. Blanchi, M. Chladil, A.M. Gill, K. Haynes, J. Leonard, J. McLennan, R.A. Bradstock (2013) Defining Adequate Means of Residents to Prepare Property for Protection from Wildfire, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 6, 67-77.

Gill, N., Adams, M. & Eriksen, C. (2012) Engaging with the (Un)Familiar: Field Teaching in a Multi-Campus Teaching Environment, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36(2), 259-275.

Eriksen, C. & Prior, T. (2011) The Art of Learning: Wildfire, Amenity Migration and Local Environmental Knowledge, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 20(4), 612-624.

Eriksen, C., Gill, N. & Bradstock, R (2011) Trial by Fire: Natural Hazards, Mixed-Methods and Cultural Research, Australian Geographer, 42(1), 19-40.

Eriksen, C. & Gill, N. (2010) Bushfire and Everyday Life: Examining the Awareness – Action Gap in Changing Rural Landscapes, Geoforum, 41(5), 814-825.

Eriksen, C., Gill, N. & Head, L. (2010) The Gendered Dimensions of Bushfire in Changing Rural Landscapes in Australia, Journal of Rural Studies, 26(4), 332-342.

Eriksen, C. (2009) Fired Up? Bushfire Awareness and Preparedness amongst Diverse Rural Landowners, South Australian Geographer, 24(2), 14-17.

Eriksen, C. (2007) Why do They Burn the Bush? Fire, Rural Livelihoods, and Conservation in Zambia, Geographical Journal, 173(3), 242-256.

Other Publications

Eriksen, C., Hauri, A., Aebi, S., & Kamberaj, J. (2023) Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons for Swiss Civil Protection. CSS Risk and Resilience Report, ETH Zürich.

Eriksen, C., Hauri, A., Holliger, J., Mason, S., Merz, F. & Zogg, B. (2022) The Climate Change–Security Interface, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, No. 315. ETH Zürich.

Eriksen, C. (2022) Den Bevölkerungsschutz fit für den Klimawandel machen, Bulletin 2022 zur Schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik, CSS ETH Zürich, pp.151-154.

Eriksen, C., Hauri, A. & Kollmann, D.N. (2022) Adapting Swiss Civil Protection to a Changing Climate, CSS Policy Perspective, 10/12, ETH Zürich.

Eriksen, C. & Hauri, A. (2022) When Crises Collide: Energy, Security, Climate Change, CSS Policy Perspective, 10/8, ETH Zürich.

Eriksen, C. (2022) Indigenous lore and the fire knowledge we ignore, in Special Report: Wildfires, 360info.org

Eriksen, C. (2022) Book review: Danielle Celermajer Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 37(1), p.31.

McKinnon, S., Green, A., Daly, M., Boehme, T., Cooper, P. & Eriksen, C. (2022) Building Community Resilience to Bushfires: A Case Study of Kangaroo Valley. [A set of nine Bushfire Research Briefs, the final project report, and a recording of the final community webinar are free to access online.]

Eriksen, C. (2021) The Challenge of Forest Fires in Europe with Climate Change, in Sicherheitspolitische Trends 2022–2030: Grossmächtekonflikt und Technologiewettbewerb, CSS, ETH Zürich.

Eriksen, C. & Hauri, A. (2021) Climate Change in the Swiss Alps, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, No. 290. ETH Zürich.

Eriksen, C., Hauri, A., Thiel, J. & Scharte, B. (2021) An Evaluation of Switzerland becoming a Participating State of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, CSS Risk and Resilience Report, ETH Zürich.

Simon, G. & Eriksen, C. (2021) The Unequal Social Consequences of Wildfire Smoke in California, Bay Nature, 20 April 2021.

Eriksen, C. (2020) Europe’s Fiery Future: Rethinking Wildfire Policy, CSS Policy Perspective, 8/12, ETH Zürich.

Booth, K., Lucas, C. & Eriksen, C. (2021) Underinsurance is entrenching poverty as the vulnerable are hit hardest by disasters. The Conversation, 4 February 2021.

Lucas, C., Eriksen, C. & Bowman, D. (2020) A crisis of underinsurance threatens to scar rural Australia permanently. The Conversation, 7 January 2020.

Eriksen, C. (2019) Human vulnerability to “natural” disasters: A case study of Hurricane Katrina, Geography Review, 33(2) 2-5.

Haworth, B., Eriksen, C., & McKinnon, S. (2019) Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone? The Conversation, 29 May 2019.

Lakhina, S.J., Eriksen, C., Thompson, J., Aldunate, R., McLaren, J. & Reddy, S. (2019) Case Study: People from refugee backgrounds contribute to a disaster-resilient Illawarra, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 34(2), 19-20.

Eriksen, C., McKinnon, S., Towers, B., Calgaro, E., Haynes, K., Richardson, J., & Avianto, A. (2018) Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them. The Conversation, 4 April 2018.

Roth, F., Eriksen, C., & Prior, T. (2017) Understanding the root causes of natural disasters. The Conversation, 27 June 2017.

Lakhina, S.J. & Eriksen, C. (2017) Resilient Together: Engaging the knowledge and capacities of refugees for a disaster-resilient Illawarra. In Migrants in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practices for Inclusion, (ed.) L. Guadagno, M. Fuhrer and J. Twigg. Geneva: United Nations.

Association for Fire Ecology – expert committee (2016) Position Paper: Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in Wildland Fire Management, with accompanying info-graphic and copy of invited written testimony to US Congressional Hearing.

Eriksen, C. (2016) Book Review: Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction by F. Krüger et al., Geographical Research, 54(2), 226-227.

Whittaker, J., Eriksen, C., & Haynes, K. (2015) More men die in bushfires: How gender affects how we plan and respond. The Conversation, 26 November 2015.

Booth, K., Tranter, B., and Eriksen, C. (2015) Properties under fire: why so many Australians are inadequately insured against disaster, The Conversation, 20 November 2015.

Eriksen, C. (2015) Wildfires in Australia, Geography Review, 28(4), centrepiece 20-21.

Eriksen, C. (2014) Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty, Wildfire Magazine, 23(1), 14-18.

Bradstock, R., Penman, T. Price, O., Penman, S., Gill, N., Eriksen, C., Dun, O., Brennan-Horley, C., & Wilkinson, C. (2014) Life on the Edge – Living with Risk, Fire Note, Issue 129, Aug. 2014.

Eriksen, C. (2013) War Cry, Current Conservation, 7(1), 36-37.

Eriksen, C. & Hankins, D. (2013) Gendered Dimensions of Aboriginal Australian and California Indian Fire Knowledge Retention and Revival, Current Conservation, 7(1), 22-26.

Eriksen, C. (2012) Book Review: The Atlas of Women in the World by Joni Seager. New Zealand Geographer, 68, 143-144.

Eriksen, C. (2012) Book Review: Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries by Karin Klenke. Gender, Place and Culture, 19(3), 398-400.

Eriksen, C. (2009) Opinion piece on Learning from bushfires, The Guardian Weekly, 27 February, p.23.