Pam Jakes
Pamela J. Jakes is a research forester in the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Forest Resources and School of Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota. For more than 30 years she has worked with public land managers, helping them collaborate with local communities to incorporate social information into land use decision making.
For the past decade her research has focused on community wildfire preparedness. She has been co-principal investigator of three Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) projects: “Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Social Capacity;" “Characterizing Lessons Learned From Federal Biomass Removal Projects;" and “Re-measurement to Understand Variation in Social and Economic Effects of Large Wildfires.” Currently, she principal investigator of the JFSP project “The Role of Adaptive Capacity in Creating Fire Adapted Human Communities.”
The U.S. Quadrennial Fire Review identifies “achieving fire adapted communities” in the wildland-urban interface and identifying metrics for determining a community’s adaptive capacity as a goal. Jakes and colleagues are conducting research to improve understanding of how the notion of adaptive capacity can be applied to the problem of at-risk communities by answering the question: what are the social characteristics of human communities that promote adaptive capacity for wildfire?
She is a member of a Forest Service team exploring integration of agency research related to adaptive capacity for a number of hazards into a coherent agency program of research.
Related Resources from Pam Jakes
Community Wildfire Protection Planning: Is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's Vagueness Genius?
With Kristen C. Nelson, Sherry A. Enzler, Sam Burns, Antony S. Cheng, Victoria Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams, Alexande rBujak, Rachel F. Brummel, Stephanie Grayzeck-Souter, and Emily Staychock
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2011
