To build a collaborative vision of resilience we must take a whole-of-society approach, connect and align our work across regions and sectors, and accelerate the implementation of collective solutions. An essential component of the WRCC’s approach is working across three interconnected Cores — Indigenous Fire Stewardship, Knowledge Mobilization, and Technology and Innovation Municipal leaders understand the people and social systems that enable a community to prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfire events (e.g., social cohesion, communication, mental health, adaptive capacity, etc.). The WRCC team will work to understand all these human dimensions and find a way of incorporating diverse views, opinions, and knowledge to help Canadians live with fire.
Understanding that our country is vast, with diverse landscapes, ecosystems, and human dimensions across the country, the WRCC is establishing place-based Wildfire Knowledge Networks. These place-based Networks will each have a local coordinator and develop an understanding of the people, wildfire challenges, and mitigation/management opportunities in their region and then work to shape, amplify, and share local solutions.
WRCC Regional Coordinators will be at this event to gather grounded observations from municipalities and bring them back to the larger wildfire ecosystem so they can become “tethers” for research and program development, helping prioritize the needs of communities and accelerate local solutions.