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Our mission, vision, core concepts, and history.<\/p>\n
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The mission of the WiR\u0113 Center is to support evidence-based community wildfire education efforts so that communities can live with wildfire. Specifically, the WiR\u0113 Center provides personalized expertise and support to collect, interpret, and use paired parcel-level wildfire risk and social data. The WiR\u0113 Approach enables partners to effectively allocate resources and engage with residents. Leveraging lessons learned across projects, the WiR\u0113 Center pursues scientific approaches to inform conversations and decisions about wildfire adaptation.<\/p>\n
Communities can live with wildfire.<\/p>\n
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Their lives and properties are exposed to the wildfire hazard, and they can take actions to reduce their risk. Our goal is to use social science to foster understanding for the development of effective wildfire education programs that result in behavioral change.<\/p>\n
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We primarily focus on wildfire risk mitigation actions that reduce risk on private land. Actions (or behaviors) are related to attitudes and perceptions, therefore we are interested in all three.<\/p>\n
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We emphasize the value of conducting social science and using it to guide programs and policy. Conventional wisdom and \u201ccommon sense\u201d can be misleading. Local social data foster understanding of the community and context in which residents make decisions and can inform the development of effective programs.<\/p>\n
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Social and situational context matter. Many aspects of social context relate to decisions. People are influenced by neighbor interactions, community-level actions and programs, and local experts. The WiR\u0113 approach attends to the differences across contexts while also pursuing broader understanding.<\/p>\n
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Initially, we were individuals who happened to be working on related projects. Through the synergy of our efforts, we formed a highly productive team to work together on a Joint Fire Sciences funded project. Although that funding has since ended, the WiR\u0113 Team has developed into an ongoing, long-term collaboration. In addition, the WiR\u0113 Team knows its work is far from done, and there are many possibilities for building on the foundational research.<\/p>\n
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The WiR\u0113 Center is an outgrowth of the WiR\u0113 Team that focuses on the service of helping communities and practitioners implement the WiR\u0113 Team\u2019s systematic data collection and integration approach to provide insights into the unique local contexts. The WiR\u0113 Team envisioned the creation of the WiR\u0113 Center after successfully implementing the WiR\u0113 approach for several communities in Colorado. The Team realized many other communities could benefit from their innovative approach; however, the lengthy research funding model encumbers timely response to communities wishing to work with the WiRe team. For this reason, the WiR\u0113 Center was created to establish the financial and intellectual resources to be more responsive to the many communities interested in employing this approach. The WiR\u0113 Center provides the avenue through which communities and practitioners can access the expertise of the WiR\u0113 Team and implement the WiR\u0113 approach.<\/p>\n
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Communities can live with wildfire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Our core concepts are backed by a combination of experience and research:<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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How did the WiR\u0113 Team come to be?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n The WiR\u0113 Team came into existence organically, evolving from the ideas of several passionate wildfire practitioners and researchers. Initially, we were individuals who happened to be working on related projects. Through the synergy of our efforts, we formed a highly productive team to work together on a Joint Fire Sciences funded project. Although that funding has since ended, the WiR\u0113 Team has developed into an ongoing, long-term collaboration. In addition, the WiR\u0113 Team knows its work is far from done, and there are many possibilities for building on the foundational research. The researchers have found that working in partnership with the practitioners improves their science by changing how they view problems and ask questions. Likewise, the practitioners recognize the benefits of science-based, programmatic changes that help them understand and quantify programmatic outcomes. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n How did the WiR\u0113 Center come to be?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n The WiR\u0113 Center is an outgrowth of the WiR\u0113 Team that focuses on the service of helping communities and practitioners implement the WiR\u0113 Team\u2019s systematic data collection and integration approach to provide insights into the unique local contexts. The WiR\u0113 Team envisioned the creation of the WiR\u0113 Center after successfully implementing the WiR\u0113 approach for several communities in Colorado. The Team realized many other communities could benefit from their innovative approach; however, the lengthy research funding model encumbers timely response to communities wishing to work with the WiRe team. For this reason, the WiR\u0113 Center was created to establish the financial and intellectual resources to be more responsive to the many communities interested in employing this approach. The WiR\u0113 Center provides the avenue through which communities and practitioners can access the expertise of the WiR\u0113 Team and implement the WiR\u0113 approach.<\/p>\r\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"\n