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New Primer for Collaborative Dialogue Explores Expanding the Definition of Wildfire Resilience In B.C.
There is a growing need to expand the definition of wildfire resilience to consider a larger array of social and cultural factors.
In November 2023, the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue’s Mitigating Wildfire Initiative (the Initiative) convened a two-day workshop in Williams Lake to explore the concept of landscape resilience and wildfire in the Cariboo. This event brought together participants from across the region to discuss key challenges to addressing the risk of wildfire and building local resilience.
A key theme from the workshop was the need to expand definitions to include social and cultural considerations. Today the Initiative launches “Landscape Resilience and Wildfire: A Primer for Collaborative Dialogue” that draws from the workshop and reflects potential pathways to support the building of resilience through collective efforts.
This output is intended to explore the concept of resilience, while providing local examples from the Cariboo and delving into several aspects of wildfire resilience including:
Questions and assumptions about the term wildfire resilience
Ways to address wildfire resilience on provincial and regional scales
Progress towards wildfire resilience in the context of five main categories: planning, operations, networking, research and knowledge generation, and public engagement
Hearing from those most impacted from wildfire is essential. Collaborative efforts to build resilience with a region need to be grounded in community and Indigenous values as well as designed and led by those directly involved.
The document is intended to inform reflection, dialogue and collaboration on wildfire resilience and support First Nations, land use planners, governments, practitioners and others to consider resilience across an array of planning and management initiatives.
Through dialogue, relationships in landscape and wildfire resilience are being strengthened, enabling actions to move forward in a transparent, coordinated and equitable way.
The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative (MWI) advances solutions to catastrophic wildfire in British Columbia. Our purpose is to support dialogue and collaboration among governments, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, rights-holders, tenure holders, knowledge-holders and other impacted groups in collectively addressing the root causes of catastrophic wildfire—while also supporting community well-being, upholding Indigenous stewardship and increasing the resilience of our forests. Throughout this work, MWI will provide a platform to hear from those most impacted by wildfire and will strive to ground discussions in community and Indigenous values.