Christine Eriksen

Strengthening community disaster resilience in uncertain times: a multi-level analysis of an Australian bushfire This paper examines how community groups develop resilience over time through influencing and interacting with different societal levels throughout th…

🔥Hot off the press: Strengthening Community #Disaster #Resilience in Uncertain Times: A multi-level analysis of an Australian #bushfire🔥 This paper examines the #recovery challenges faced by the Kangaroo Valley community as flood and pandemic followed #wildfire: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Wildfire Social Science

🔥 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 I'm seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in #Wildfire Social Science to join the FiRES project at ETH Zürich. Deadline: 29 January 2026. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

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Masters project completed, adding a case study of the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire to the FiRES portfolio (Photos are from the photo-book “Brand am Riederhorn” (2023), reproduced with the kind permission of the Bitsch and Riederhorn Municipalities.) For the past year, Lena Widmer has focused her Master…

For the past year, the FiRES project's Masters student Lena Widmer has focused her research on the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire in the Swiss Canton of Valais 🔥 This blogpost provides a summary of her findings. Congratulations Lena on an excellent executed project! 🎉 christineeriksen.com/2025/12/12/m...

Hot off the press: A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking with #Disasters, now published in The Geographical Journal by @rgsibg.bsky.social. This collaborative paper is the last output from our fantastic workshop at @ethz.ch, supported by @snsf.ch and @unibe.ch: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Hot off the press 🔥 Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter #Indigenous #fire, now published open-access in the #FireEcology journal. Thank you @pyrogeographer.bsky.social for leading this collaboration. rdcu.be/eQtLr 🔥 @afe-fireecology.bsky.social

CONVIURE AMB ELS INCENDIS FORESTALS A CATALUNYA www.FiRESproject.com

2025 was a year of severe wildfires in Catalonia. The "Living with Wildfires in Catalonia" survey has therefore been reopened to allow people to share their experiences. Available in Catalan, Spanish and English. Please share/ re-post: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT 🔥 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social

CONVIURE AMB ELS INCENDIS FORESTALS A CATALUNYA www.FiRESproject.com

El 2025 va ser un any d'incendis forestals greus a Catalunya. Per això, l'enquesta «Conviure amb els Incendis Forestals a Catalunya» s'ha reobert per permetre que la gent comparteixi les seves experiències. Si us plau, compartiu: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT 🔥 @paucostaf.bsky.social

Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie

The Age of Fire | ARTE.tv Documentary YouTube video by ARTE.tv Documentary

I enjoyed the interview too. They were hellbent on having a small fire, which was hilariously impossible as it was in the depth of winter with frost and snow!

Blocked?! There’s a YouTube version too; can you access that? youtu.be/x1fcRsAFQ8I?...

Wie viel Feuer braucht die Erde? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Menschen sind die einzige Spezies, die Feuer erzeugen kann. Lange lebten sie sehr eng mit ihm: Es wärmte sie, brannte Dachziegel, schmolz Eisen. Doch inzwischen ist die Beziehung gekippt. Feuer gilt a...

🎬🎥 Neuer Dokumentarfilm: Wie viel Feuer braucht die Erde? 🔥🌍 Anfang dieses Jahres interviewte die ARTE-Wissenschaftssendung „42: Die Antwort auf fast alles“ mich, Stephen Pine und Kirsten Thonicke zur aktuellen #Waldbrandkrise. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

@unibe.ch @ethz.ch

42: The Answer to Almost Everything - The Age of Fire - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English Humans are the only species that can produce fire. For a long time, we lived intimately with fire, which helped our development. But today fire seems like a destroyer, with ever more intense wildfires...

🎬📽️ New documentary: The Age of Fire 🔥🌍 Earlier this year, the ARTE science show '42: The Answer to Almost Everything' interviewed me, Stephen Pine and Kirsten Thonicke about the current #wildfire crisis. How can we learn to coexist with fire (again)? www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

@unibe.ch @ethz.ch

It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project! As of October 1, 2025, the FiRES project has a new institutional home at ETH Zürich. I am excited to be back in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, which is hosting the FiR…

It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project at ETH Zürich. Fieldwork and collaborations continue unabated. You can read more about the move to #ETHZ and other research activities this summer in this blog post: christineeriksen.com/2025/10/03/i...

The PLANAT.ch Committee met in Ticino last week, in part to learn from the hard-won lessons of the devastating floods/ rockslides in Maggia valley last summer. Seeing the damage and ongoing efforts to rebuild left a deep impression. This article describes it well: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🔔Hot off the press📣 This paper is part of Rachel Reimer’s PhD on #risk management and #psychological safety in the mountain guiding and avalanche profession. It shows how human-caused hazards negatively impact physical safety in the profession. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lgxI_GvEq...

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

Again and again the USFS asked its own researchers how to better protect wildland firefighters, and they came back with the same recommendation: Give them masks. Still, leadership held off. Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous #wildfire #smoke really is. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California Anthropogenic warming accelerates wildfire season onset in California.

Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California.

Link to the actual study by Madakumbura et al. (2025) in @aaas.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As Earth Warms, California Fire Season Is Starting Earlier, Study Finds

NYT: "The study rules out 2 factors that might be behind the shift: buildup of vegetation and changes in the number of fires ignited by humans."

My note: to understand wildfire risk, you need to understand how climatic, demographic and land-use changes are entwined.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/c...

🧵California's fire season now starts up to 6 weeks earlier than in 1990. Although the population has ⬆️27% since then, human-ignited fires have dropped. Instead, the most significant factors are climate-related: earlier snowmelt, drying soils + more flammable vegetation as average temperatures rise.

Opinion | The Last Words of a Dying Glacier

Crying Glaciers: beautiful and heartbreaking Op-Doc by filmmaker Lutz Stautner and artist Ludwig Berger recording the sounds of the melting Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland in an effort to capture the sounds of a disappearing environment. (via The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Christine Eriksen & Gregory L. Simon (2025) entitled 'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean hazards, unfolding catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation' with an orange banner at the top.

☢️New commentary in Geo!☢️

'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean hazards, unfolding catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation' by @drceriksen.bsky.social & Gregory L. Simon

This piece unpacks the governance & management of earthquakes & nuclear waste repositories.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Hot off the press 🚨 'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean #hazards, unfolding #catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation', free to access in GEO: #Geography and #Environment: dx.doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Thank you to @snsf.ch and @rgsibg.bsky.social for supporting this collaborative work.

Please join us tomorrow/Thursday 5 June if you are in Geneva for the #GP2025 #DRR. At 12:45, our learning lab will focus on drought preparedness and wildfire management in Switzerland.

From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management Despite widespread critique, the established notion of sequential disaster management phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) continues …

🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 In this collaborative workshop paper, we argue for the need to move from rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management. With financial support from @snsf.ch and @unibe.ch, the paper is free to access online in IJDRR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Climate change is real’: devastating wildfire photography – in pictures Artist and photographer Phil Buehler captured some of the worst-hit properties from the the Eaton fire in Altadena, Los Angeles

Photographer Phil Buehler captures beauty amidst the devastation in the fire scar from the Eaton fire in Altadena: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Last week was all go for the FiRES project in Catalonia 🔥 Together with the @paucostaf.bsky.social and CareNet at @uocuniversitat.bsky.social we distributed 4000 postcards to residents who’ve been impacted by #wildfire or live in at-risk areas. Now we’re keeping our 🤞🏼 for many interesting responses.

Hot off the press🔥 Social resilience research on climate-related hazards: Trends, accomplishments and shortcomings. We review how research engages with communities and places exposed to climate-related hazards.Open access in @plosclimate.org funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

“This is a climate-induced credit crunch.” Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Project stock-take: a busy six months! It’s that time of year when I’m asked by the Institute to contribute to the Annual Report. It made me realise that a project stock-take is well and truly overdue, as the Geographies of …

It’s that time of year when I’m asked by the Institute to contribute to the Annual Report. It made me realise that a project stock-take is well and truly overdue, as the Geographies of Disasters team has been very busy. Here's a summary of what we've been up to: christineeriksen.com/2025/03/26/p...

📣🔥 Survey: FiRES @unibe.ch has teamed up with @paucostaf.bsky.social and CareNet @uocuniversitat.bsky.social to study community wildfire resilience in Catalonia 🔥 Have you been impacted or live/work in an at-risk area? Please participate in CAT/ES/EN. Closes 30.6.25: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT

Please join us at the University of Zurich on Wednesday 26 March for the Uncertainty Symposium. In Part 2, David Bresch, Stuart Kirsch, Michael Schaepman and I will focus on environmental uncertainty and climate change: scenarios, responses and perceptions of the future. www.uzh.ch/de/events/ev...