When Fire Meets Water: Healthy Watersheds as a Solution for the 21st Century
POLIS’ Oliver M. Brandes and Andrea Barnett were featured panellists at the webinar When Fire Meets Water: Healthy Watersheds as a Solution for the 21st Century, which explored the relationships between fire, watershed hydrology, and ecological governance. This was the first of two webinars offered through Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s Fire Files series and made possible by the support of The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).
Speakers
Moderator
Dr. Ruth Waldick, Lead Scientist, Transition Salt Spring’s Climate Adaptation Research Lab
Panellists
Andrea Barnett, MPP (she/her) Wildfire Project Manager, POLIS Wildfire Resilience Project, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
Craig Stewart, MSc (he/him) Vice-President, Climate Change and Federal Issues, Insurance Bureau of Canada
Oliver M. Brandes, Dip.RNS, M.Econ., JD (he/him), Co-Director, POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
François-Nicolas Robinne, PhD (he/him) Forest Hydrologist, Government of Alberta