Call for Papers: Learning from the 2023 Lahaina & 2025 Los Angeles Fire Disasters Disaster

[AJ Faas]

Natural Hazards Review is seeking submissions for a special issue entitled "Learning from the 2023 Lahaina & 2025 Los Angeles Fire Disasters Disaster.”

We’d like to hear from practitioners and field researchers experienced in collecting perishable data from survivors who have translated values, ideas, practices, and lessons across diverse hazards and cultures. The special issue will include papers addressing disaster governance and specific, tactical and operational guidance for improving response and recovery from fire disasters. We also welcome consideration of local, indigenous knowledge and place-based systems and practices for healing, restoration, and advancing nature-based solutions following disasters in addition to building codes, zoning ordinances, fire safety standards, and novel approaches to land development.

While there are unique opportunities to “learn from Lahaina,” there is much need to learn from others and engage in collaborative, convergence across disciplines and communities of practice. We look forward to hearing from you, receiving your abstracts, reading your papers, and working to promote further understanding, dialogue, and deliberation on wildfires, climate resilience and existential threats to our local communities and planet.

For more information, visit: 

https://ascelibrary.org/nhrefo/cfp-lahaina-fire-disaster

A.J. Faas, Ph.D.

Professor & Graduate Coordinator

Department of Anthropology

San José State University

President | Society for Applied Anthropology