Hannah Brenkert-Smith
Hannah Brenkert-Smith is an environmental sociologist at the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work examines human and societal interactions with the environment, using quantitative and qualitative methods.
In the past ten years, Brenkert-Smith's work has focused primarily on household and community response to wildfire risk, place meaning and attachment, and short and long-term forest and fire hazard planning in the face of a changing climate. She was an Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellow, a science and technology policy fellow at the National Academy of Sciences, and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Brenkert-Smith also served in the Peace Corps.
Related Resources from Hannah Brenkert-Smith
Building bridges to fight fire: the role of informal social interactions in six Colorado wildland–urban interface communities
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2010
