{"id":4744,"date":"2021-10-18T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/center-health-equity-research\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:11:27","slug":"fairness-first-catrin-edgeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/fairness-first-catrin-edgeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairness First releases its first blog: Catrin Edgeley, Wildfires and health equity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Wildfires and health equity with Catrin Edgeley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Edgeley_headshot_2021-square-1-600x600-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Catrin Edgeley wearing a white sweater, smiling.\" class=\"wp-image-10643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Edgeley_headshot_2021-square-1-600x600-1.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Edgeley_headshot_2021-square-1-600x600-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Edgeley_headshot_2021-square-1-600x600-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Edgeley_headshot_2021-square-1-600x600-1-400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Catrin Edgeley, Assistant Professor, School of Forestry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q. Can you tell us more about the research you do around wildfire and social science?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>A. <\/strong><\/span>I research how human communities can become \u201cfire adapted\u201d (i.e., live with fire while minimizing impacts and losses) before, during, and after wildfires. This involves using a suite of social science methods, including interviews, focus groups and surveys, to gather data with and for communities at risk to determine successful adaptation strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can include household-level actions that improve health and safety like improving indoor air quality or developing evacuation plans, detangling community conflicts around forest management or post-fire recovery, and support or opposition for different policies that may impact social adaptation to fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Socially impactful wildfires are now occurring &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/sherc\/fairness-first-blog-edgeley\/\">Read the full blog <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires and health equity with Catrin Edgeley Q. Can you tell us more about the research you do around wildfire and social science? A. I research how human communities can become \u201cfire adapted\u201d (i.e., live with fire while minimizing impacts and losses) before, during, and after wildfires. This involves using a suite of social science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[226,474,473,475,472,155],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14195,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions\/14195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}