How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

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<H4>Join the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation in welcoming <STRONG>Edward Struzik</STRONG> to discuss his book <EM>Firestorm.</EM></H4>
<H4><STRONG>The evening event will include a reception, presentation, panel discussion, author Q&A, and book signing.</STRONG></H4>
<P><STRONG>Author and main speaker:</STRONG> Edward Struzik</P>
<P><STRONG>Panelists:</STRONG> <SPAN>Douglas Bevington, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (moderator); Beth Burnham, North Topanga Canyon Fire Safe Council; Chad Hanson, The John Muir Project ; Alex Hall, UCLA; Chief Ralph Terrazas, City of Los Angeles</SPAN></P>
<H4>ABOUT THE BOOK</H4>
<P>2017 was marked as the deadliest and most destructive year of wildfires ever in California. Over 9,000 fires burned throughout the state, including 950 wildfires in Northern California in October alone. With higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands across the globe it shouldn’t be a surprise that Governor Jerry Brown commented on the six wildfires that ravaged Southern California as the “new normal.”</P>
<P>In <EM>Firestorm</EM>, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.</P>
<H4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</H4>
<P>Edward Struzik has been writing about scientific and environmental issues for more than 30 years. A fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, his numerous accolades include the prestigious Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to the understanding of science. In 1996 he was awarded the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and spent a year at Harvard and MIT researching environment, evolutionary biology, and politics with E.O. Wilson, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin. His 2015 book, <EM>Future Arctic</EM>, focuses on the effects of climate change in the Canadian Arctic and the impacts they will have on the rest of the world. His other books include <EM>Arctic Icons</EM>, <EM>The Big Thaw</EM>, and <EM>Northwest Passage</EM>. He is an active speaker and lecturer, and his work as a regular contributor to Yale Environment 360 covers topics such as the effects of climate change and fossil fuel extraction on northern ecosystems and their inhabitants. He is on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, a citizens’ organization dedicated to the long-term environmental and social well-being of northern Canada and its peoples. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.</P>

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