What California Planners Need To Know About Wildfires
$29.00 4 Sections 4 Lessons
Course Description
Wildfires have suddenly become a major land use issue in California planning. This course provides California planners with the basics they need to know in order to begin tackling the wildfire issue. In four 15-minute segments, Bill Fulton, author of Guide to California Planning, provides an overview of this issue and tips and techniques to improve land-use practices dealing with wildfire.
The four segments cover the following
1. Why both urban and rural wildfires in California are increasing.
2. The three basic approaches to dealing with wildfires: avoidance, mitigation and fire management.
3. What land-use practices are making wildfire risk worse in California, with a focus on low-density rural subdvision.
4. What land-use practices can reduce wildfire risk in California, with a focus on new requirements contained in the General Plan Safety Element.
If you take this course, you'll be eliglible for one hour of AICP CM Sustainability and Resiliency credit (claim your credit here)!
Course Content
Why Wildfire Risk In California Is Getting Worse
An overview of California's fire-driven ecology and why wildfire risks are getting worse.
Wildfire #1
Avoidance, Mitigation, and Fire Management
How risk to people and property can be avoided and mitigated, and the role fire management plays.
Wildfire #2
How land use planning can make wildfire risk worse
How poor land use practices can interfere with fire management and create a riskier situation than would otherwise exist
Wildfire #3
How land use planning can help
How good land use practices can reinforce successful strategies for avoidance, mitigation, and even fire management
Wildfire #4