Add-On Meeting: Equitable Wildfire Emergency Management and Critical Infrastructure Systems

Sunday, July 14, 8:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. MDT
Location: Pine

Please consider joining this add-on meeting that will coincide with the annual Natural Hazards Workshop. This meeting will offer an opportunity for participants to establish a shared understanding of the gaps and challenges in equitable and efficient wildfire Emergency Management of Critical Infrastructure Systems (EM-CIS). This meeting is designed to engage stakeholders from government agencies, the private sector, and academia who are involved with interdependent critical infrastructure systems and communities in the face of a wildfire. The meeting will involve facilitated discussions that will inform the creation of theoretical/computational decision models to be used by wildfire practitioners.

This meeting is limited to 50 participants. If you are interested in attending, please complete this form by no later than July 1, 2024. Because this is an add-on meeting, registration for the Natural Hazards Workshop is not required if you are only attending this session. There is no additional cost associated with this add-on meeting.

Planned Activities

The meeting facilitators will:

  • Provide an overview of the research project and its intended applications
  • Conduct facilitated brainstorming sessions and identify themes of challenges, concerns, and suggestions related to equitable wildfire emergency management and critical infrastructure systems
  • Organize small roundtable discussions on key themes

Participants will help to:

  • Pilot a household survey designed to assess the social burden of wildfire induced critical infrastructure system disruptions
  • Validate household focus group interview questions
  • Validate in-depth interview questions
  • Identify next steps and future activities for this network

Project Website, Flyer, and Agenda

Please click here for the project website. You are also encouraged to download the flyer and detailed agenda for the meeting.

Questions?

If you have questions about this add-on meeting, please contact Sayanti Mukherjee directly at sayantim@buffalo.edu.

Funding Acknowledgement


This workshop is an integral part of the project, “Integrating Equity in Emergency Management: A Human-Centered Decision Framework to Improve Polycentric Governance of Critical Infrastructure in Wildland-Urban Interfaces” funded by the National Science Foundation’s Strengthening American Infrastructure program (NSF Award #2324616).

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