Scholarly Podcast: “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley” by Judith Burr (UBC Department of Geography), featured in Issue no. 220 (Winter 2023/24). Clips from Episode 3, "The lighter footprint of fire."
“This podcast series explores the ways that fire history informs present and future ways of living with and understanding fire in and around this Valley. It is a contribution to interdisciplinary and public conversations about life with fire. It centers on fourteen oral history and expert interviews and two field recordings. Each interviewee holds specific and often plural forms of expertise and understandings of life with fire in and around the Okanagan.” - Abstract Excerpt
Listen to full episodes on our website! https://tinyurl.com/h3hsc7rt
Scholarly Podcast: “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley” by Judith Burr (UBC Department of Geography), featured in Issue no. 220 (Winter 2023/24). Clips from Episode 2, "Challenging, beautiful bioregion."
“Understanding the history of fire in this place can contribute to better fire use, management, and response that accounts for human and more-than-human ecological health and recognizes multiple forms of important fire expertise.” - Abstract Excerpt
Listen to full episodes on our website! https://tinyurl.com/h3hsc7rt
#wildfire #britishcolumbia #bcwildfire #climatechange #ClimateAction #firesafety #environment #scholarly #podcast #journal #bcstudies #fireseason
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Mount Polley mine tailings damn breach... On August 4th, 2014, on unceded Secwépemc territory, in the Cariboo Region of British Columbia, the Mount Polley copper-gold mining operation produced the worst environmental disaster in Canadian history, and the second largest tailings dam failures in the world.
Read in-depth articles, key interviews and reflections in our recently released Special Issue no. 221, "Learning from Disaster: A Decade After the Mount Polley Tailings Dam Failure."
Purchase your copy on our website! https://tinyurl.com/mr296nmb
Or read online on OJS https://tinyurl.com/yrb4k7yn
#britishcolumbia #mining #environmentaldisaster #political #social #secwepemc #canadianhistory #Conservation #ecology
Scholarly Podcast: “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley” by Judith Burr (UBC Department of Geography), featured in Issue no. 220 (Winter 2023/24). Clips from Episode 1, "Pick your poison, or pick your medicine."
“The Okanagan Valley of the southern interior of British Columbia has been shaped by fire for millennia: by cultural burning by First Nations communities, by lightning fires, and by patterns of settler-colonial burning and fire suppression. In the wake of large and severe wildfire seasons and predictions of worsening wildfires fueled by climate change, there are calls for both interdisciplinary problem-solving among fire experts and for more public engagement to transform how we live with fire in British Columbia.” - Abstract Excerpt
Listen to full episodes on our website! https://tinyurl.com/h3hsc7rt
#wildfire #britishcolumbia #bcwildfire #climatechange #ClimateAction #firesafety #environment #scholarly #podcast #journal #bcstudies #fireseason
Scholarly Podcast: “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley” by Judith Burr (UBC Department of Geography), featured in Issue no. 220 (Winter 2023/24).
This podcast was recorded during 2021, a year with record breaking heatwaves and aggressive wildfires. Last year, in 2023, British Columbia experienced the most destructive wildfire season on record with more than 2.84 million hectares of forest and land burned. Over the course of this summer, we will be highlighting each episode, starting with this clip taken from the prologue, “What you do, and what you don’t do."
Listen to full episodes on our website! https://tinyurl.com/h3hsc7rt
#wildfire #britishcolumbia #bcwildfire #climatechange #ClimateAction #firesafety #environment #scholarly #podcast #journal #bcstudies #fireseason
