Canada’s Wildfire Blind Spot: The Missing Data on Social Impacts
Discussions around Canadian wildfires often focus on their physical impacts, but overlook their social impacts. This limits the effectiveness of government agencies in allocating resources and supporting communities to achieve a holistic recovery from wildfire disasters. Addressing this gap is critical to equitable disaster recovery.
Why is it important to measure the social impacts of wildfires on communities? What challenges are preventing Canadian agencies from integrating social impacts into wildfire impact assessments? How can social vulnerability indices (SoVIs) be leveraged for measuring the social impacts of wildfires?
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Wildfire impacts: Measuring what matters
Assessing vulnerability
A fragmented data landscape
Australia’s data-driven approach to measuring the impact of wildfires
A wildfire impact assessment framework for Canada
Implementing the CWIAF
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Bibliography
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