Tag: hazard mitigation

• September 22, 2022

  What the Wildfire Community Can Learn from Civil Engineers on Hazard Mitigation

  The field of civil engineering has long been involved in mitigating hazards affecting communities. Fires, however, have generally fallen outside of the purview of civil engineering, possibly due to the fact that civil engineering education does not provide the necessary background in fire science. Nonetheless, “resilience” is a term that spans the civil engineering and…