IAP Webinar to Explore International Collaboration on Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Risk

The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) invites to an international webinar on 12 May at 8:00 AM ET titled 'International Collaboration for Advancing Modeling and Risk Assessment of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires'. The event will bring together experts working at the intersection of wildfire science, modelling and risk analysis to discuss current approaches and opportunities for strengthening global cooperation.

The webinar builds on an international workshop convened by IAP in collaboration with the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences and supported by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. That workshop brought together researchers from multiple countries to review advances in wildfire modelling and examine how these tools can better support understanding and mitigation of risks, particularly in the wildland-urban interface.

Wildland-urban interface fires present growing challenges as climate conditions evolve and human settlements expand into fire-prone areas. The webinar will highlight how modelling approaches and emerging analytical tools can contribute to improved risk assessment, planning and preparedness. It will also emphasise the importance of international collaboration in addressing shared challenges and strengthening the science-policy interface.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and explore how coordinated efforts across countries and disciplines can support more effective responses to wildfire risk in the future. The list of speakers will be published here in the upcoming days.

Webinar Registration

Register to the webinar here

Publication

Wildfire Modelling and Artificial Intelligence: here