WILDFIRE
CCRM faculty are interested in the issue of wildfire management. Recent publications include a co-authored article by Marta Gonzalez on fire regimes:
Pais, C., Gonzalez-Olabarria, J. R., Elimbi Moudio, P., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., González, M. C., & Shen, Z. J. M. (2023). Global scale coupling of pyromes and fire regimes. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 267.
Louise Comfort has also published recent work on wildfires that focuses in particular on evacuation strategies:
Li, P., Zhao, B., Soga, K., & Comfort, L. (2024). Exploring Wildfire Evacuation Strategies for Diverse Communities. Transportation Research Record, 03611981241242374.
Soga, K., Comfort, L., Li, P., Zhao, B., & Lorusso, P. (2024). Testing Wildfire Evacuation Strategies and Coordination Plans for Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Communities in California.
Hardy, K., & Comfort, L. K. (2015). Dynamic decision processes in complex, high-risk operations: The Yarnell Hill Fire, June 30, 2013. Safety science, 71, 39-47.
FLOODING
Anna Serra-Llobet, Matt Kondolf and their co-authors have recently published a number of articles on managing flood risks, including:
Serra‐Llobet, A., Tourment, R., Montané, A., & Buffin‐Belanger, T. (2022). Managing residual flood risk behind levees: Comparing USA, France, and Quebec (Canada). Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15(2), e12785.
Serra-Llobet, A., Jähnig, S. C., Geist, J., Kondolf, G. M., Damm, C., Scholz, M., ... & Schmitt, R. (2022). Restoring rivers and floodplains for habitat and flood risk reduction: experiences in multi-benefit floodplain management from California and Germany. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 778568.
Serra‐Llobet, A., Kondolf, G. M., Magdaleno, F., & Keenan‐Jones, D. (2022). Flood diversions and bypasses: Benefits and challenges. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 9(1), e1562.
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
Stephen Collier and Savanah Cox recently published an article on climate change governance in three U.S. cities: New Orleans, New York and Greater Miami. The paper investigates how insurance has become "increasingly central to the constitution of climate change as a public problem." The article can be found at: