Please Join us for a Research Feedback Session: Understanding Growth and Resilience in the Wildland Urban Interface!
The “Wildland Urban Interface” (WUI) – where housing mixes with or sits alongside natural areas – is the fastest area of housing growth in California, and also the most hazard-prone. But little is known about why people move to and live in “the WUI,” or about their needs and visions for the future. This includes understanding the relationship of WUI growth to California’s housing and climate crises, and increases in natural disasters. Over the last two years, UCSC faculty, students, and community partners have been conducting “WUI Research for Resilience," a large research project on these questions throughout Santa Cruz and North Monterey Counties.
We now invite you to a presentation of preliminary findings, with a special focus on surveys, interviews, and mapping efforts in the San Lorenzo Valley. Following the presentation, we will facilitate small group discussions to gather your valuable perspectives and feedback on themes such as disaster preparedness and recovery, land stewardship and conservation, and housing affordability and access, Your input will directly shape the final phase of our research and the development of recommendations aimed at fostering greater resilience in our WUI communities and throughout the region.
This research is supported by the UC Climate Action Research Initiative.
