Why do people remain in disaster-prone areas after experiencing climate shocks—because of money, identity, or both? In our article, we explore this question in detail using a case study of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire in Oregon. #wildfires #ethnography #climate

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This morning as I’m preparing for my talk on wildfire recovery in the US, I received a text from Portugal. Forest fires, three times larger than the LA fires are burning the area of Coimbra close to where I just visited. My hearts are with everyone who has to flee for safety! #disaster
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Pleasure to be the Rural Sociology Topic Chair for the Pacific Sociological Association 2026 annual conference in Long Beach, CA. I look forward to reading fabulous research in this topical area. #PacificSociologicalAssociation

This bag of trash is in my thoughts today. It’s mostly unusable plastics whose ancestor is fossil fuel. They now go to the waste system, partly into the streams, rivers, lakes, eventually end up in the ocean.