{"id":1692,"date":"2021-05-12T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/staging\/1734\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2021-05-12T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:14:13","slug":"outthink-wildfire-a-podcast-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/outthink-wildfire-a-podcast-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Outthink Wildfire\u2014a Podcast Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is evident with each increasingly serious and increasingly long wildfire season in the West and South that American still has serious public policy work to do in confronting this hazard. Recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/\">National Fire Protection Association<\/a> unveiled its new policy initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/News-and-Research\/Publications-and-media\/Press-Room\/News-releases\/2021\/NFPA-launches-Outthink-Wildfire-an-initiative-aimed-at-eliminating-the-destruction\">Outthink Wildfire<\/a>, aimed at highlighting the need to move beyond current reactive strategies to widespread adoption and enforcement of building codes, adoption of wiser land-use regulations, and building substantial public pressure to make changes happen quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planning.org\/\">American Planning Association<\/a> has released a new episode in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planning.org\/podcast\/resilience-roundtable\/\">Resilience Roundtable<\/a> series of podcasts, sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apa.hmdr\/\">APA Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division<\/a>, in which I interview Michele Steinberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/Public-Education\/Fire-causes-and-risks\/Wildfire\/Firewise-USA\">Wildfire Division Manager<\/a> at NFPA, about this initiative and what results it may produce in reducing wildfire hazards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planning.org\/podcast\/we-need-to-outthink-wildfire-not-try-to-eliminate-it\/\">Click here<\/a> to listen to the podcast.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Schwab<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is evident with each increasingly serious and increasingly long wildfire season in the West and South that American still has serious public policy work to do in confronting this hazard. Recently, the National Fire Protection Association unveiled its new policy initiative, Outthink Wildfire, aimed at highlighting the need to move beyond current reactive strategies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,81,14,1661,609,120,395],"tags":[1174,1853,453,1852,1146,153],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-disaster-2","category-disasters","category-hazard-mitigation","category-natural-hazards","category-public-safety","category-wildfire","tag-building-codes","tag-national-fire-protection-association","tag-nfpa","tag-outthink-wildfire","tag-resilience-roundtable","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}