Stakeholder Engagement

Tracks
Arquivo Room
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Thematic Session

Details

The session will discuss: How the complexity of landscape fire management might call for new models of engaging multiple stakeholders, including regulatory bodies, industry experts, scientists, researchers and local communities. Laying ground for more participatory procedures allowing for discussion and negotiation at all jurisdictional levels. 2 Keynotes Session: Keynote Presentations - 20/25 minutes Roundtable with keynote and panelists: 30 minutes Questions & Answers: 20 minutes


Speaker

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Michael Czaja
Affiliate, Colorado State University

Chair

Biography

Michael R. Czaja, PhD, currently holds an affiliate appointment at Colorado State University. He is also the volunteer American Red Cross Disaster Cycle Services program lead for the US military community in Kaiserslautern, Germany. A commissioned officer in the US Army, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel with over 22 years on active duty. Mike recently served as a Humanitarian Assistance Advisor with the US Forest Service’s Disaster Assistance Support Program. His professional experience includes law enforcement, emergency/wildland fire management, humanitarian assistance/disaster response, and humanitarian mine action. He worked in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. After military retirement, Mike earned his doctorate in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. His dissertation examined public perceptions of prescribed fire in Colorado and Wyoming. In 2022, he completed a Fulbright Specialist project in Portugal. Hosted by the Agency for Integrated Rural Fire Management, Mike interviewed public and private stakeholders in the Integrated Rural Fire Management System on a variety of wildland fire-related topics. Mike is the recipient of the US Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award for outstanding support to US Department of State initiatives conducted under the auspices of the US Humanitarian Mine Action Program.
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Sarah McCaffrey
Retired US Forest Service

Keynote Speaker

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Biography

Sarah McCaffrey, PhD, recently retired after 20 years as a fire social scientist with the US Forest Service where her research focused on understanding the social dynamics of fire management. This included research projects that examined the role of risk perception and risk attitudes, social acceptability of prescribed fire, homeowner mitigation decisions, evacuation decision making, risk communication, and agency-community interactions during fires. Her current interests are in understanding barriers to use of fire as a management tool and what a more effective fire management system, one designed for 21st century social and environmental conditions, might look like. She received her PhD in 2002 from the University of California at Berkeley where her dissertation examined Incline Village, Nevada homeowner views and actions in relation to defensible space and fuels management.
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Egbert Schram
Hofstede Insights

Keynote Speaker (Remote)

Biography

MSc in Forestry (Wageningen University, Netherlands) Egbert Schram is the Group CEO at Hofstede Insights, and established speaker and sparring partner on the topic of how, where and when #theculturefactor impacts business and organisational operations. His areas of expertise are: internationalization, SME ´ s, culture, international account management, HRD, business development, strategy and culture alignment, executive cultural coaching. He has worked in the field for some two decades and has worked in over 40+ countries with customers such as GE Healthcare, Central Bank of Nigeria, UNDP, Coca Cola, Ikea, Huhtamäki , DXC Technologies, MGID, Physik Instrumente , BNP Paribas, Mediacom, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, Siemens Gamesa, Ledlenser , Barco, Lindström , Al Ghurair Group, Panasonic, RSA, Nestle Consumer Health, Mars Wrigley, and many more organisations. His style is provocative yet delicate, focused on making a complex topic understandable and handling emotional challenging decisions with a great sense of rational yet pragmatic thinking. Besides working as Group CEO, he holds various additional roles in the organisations below: Forbes Business Council member Chair of Finnish Dutch Chamber of Commerce Chair Amcham advisory board
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Natasha Ribeiro
Professor in the Department of Forest Engineering, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.

Panelist

Biography

Natasha S. Ribeiro, was born and raised in Maputo, Mozambique on August 24th 1971. She holds a bachelors degree in Forest Engineering from the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique, a MSc. in Management and Conservation of Biodiversity from the Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in Costa Rica and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia (UVa) in the USA. Natasha has more than 25 years of professional experience in teaching, researching and extension in fields of restoration ecology and forest fires. Her teaching experience includes national and international universities and coordination of academic development projects. In research, Natasha has initiated a long-term fire-related research program in the Niassa Special Reserve, one of the most important conservation areas in Mozambique, southern Africa. The program has helped defining conservation action in the country. Natasha has been appointed the coordinator of key missions in the country such as the National Strategy and Action Plan for Biodiversity Conservation (NBSAP) under the UN Convention on Biodiversity. She also serves as an advisor in several international forums such as the IUFRO Forest Fire taskforce and the European project, FirEURisk. Between 2011 and 2021 she was the regional coordinator of the Miombo Network of southern Africa. Natasha was the recipient of the 2017-2018 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program grant, which she used to visit the University of Virginia. She coordinated the book “Miombo woodlands in a changing world: securing the resilience and sustainability of people and woodlands” which was published in 2020.
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Richard de Neufville
INSTITUTE FOR DATA, SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Panelist

Biography

Dr. Richard de Neufville is Professor of Engineering Systems in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his textbooks on Systems Planning, Design, and Management which show how to combine technical expertise, economics, and management to obtain overall most productive results. He was the Founding Chairman of the MIT Technology and Policy Program, that prepares graduate students for leadership in the implementation of major technological projects. With the support of the MIT-Portugal Program, he has collaborated with Portuguese faculty, researchers, and industry over the past 20 years. Most significantly, for the Wildland Fire Conference, he worked with Dr. Tiago Oliveira and the Navigator wood and pulp company to describe the system dynamics between prevention and suppression of wildfires. The study documented how a focus on “fire-fighting” can, by neglecting suppression, create a vicious cycle that increases the intensity of wildfires. Dr. de Neufville served as a member of the President of Portugal’s Comissão Técnica Independente to review the causes and issues of the disastrous Pedrógão forest fires. For the following three years he chaired the Forest Fire Prevention and Mitigation committee allocating research grants for the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. He currently has a project with Prof. João Claro and Inesctec.
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