Geographer, ETH Zürich.
Focus on social dimensions of disasters, particularly wildfires.
www.christineeriksen.com
Christine Eriksen
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Hot off the press 🎉 The Second Shift in Mountain Guiding and Avalanche Work: Intersectional risk, human-caused hazards, and risk-management effectiveness among non-dominant groups. Published open-access by Reimer, Eriksen & Warren in IJDRR: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
For the past year, the FiRES project's Masters student Lena Widmer has focused her research on the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire in the Swiss Canton of Valais 🔥 This blogpost provides a summary of her findings. Congratulations Lena on an excellent executed project! 🎉 christineeriksen.com/2025/12/12/m...
Hot off the press 🌍 🌎 🌏 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Geoviolence: Towards Relational Conceptual Integration' - a collaborative commentary with my colleagues Nora Komposch and Mauro Fischer, published open-access in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social.
➡️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SRZEJC...
🔥 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 I'm seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in #Wildfire Social Science to join the FiRES project at ETH Zürich. Deadline: 29 January 2026. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Please share! @ethz.ch @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @paucostaf.bsky.social
🔥Hot off the press: Strengthening Community #Disaster #Resilience in Uncertain Times: A multi-level analysis of an Australian #bushfire🔥 This paper examines the #recovery challenges faced by the Kangaroo Valley community as flood and pandemic followed #wildfire: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
El 2025 va ser un any d'incendis forestals greus a Catalunya. Per això, l'enquesta «Conviure amb els Incendis Forestals a Catalunya» s'ha reobert per permetre que la gent comparteixi les seves experiències. Si us plau, compartiu: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT 🔥 @paucostaf.bsky.social
2025 was a year of severe wildfires in Catalonia. The "Living with Wildfires in Catalonia" survey has therefore been reopened to allow people to share their experiences. Available in Catalan, Spanish and English. Please share/ re-post: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT 🔥 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
Hot off the press 🔥 Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter #Indigenous #fire, now published open-access in the #FireEcology journal. Thank you @pyrogeographer.bsky.social for leading this collaboration. rdcu.be/eQtLr 🔥 @afe-fireecology.bsky.social
Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie
Hot off the press: A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking with #Disasters, now published in The Geographical Journal by @rgsibg.bsky.social. This collaborative paper is the last output from our fantastic workshop at @ethz.ch, supported by @snsf.ch and @unibe.ch: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
This paper examines how community groups develop resilience over time through influencing and interacting with different societal levels throughout th…
(Photos are from the photo-book “Brand am Riederhorn” (2023), reproduced with the kind permission of the Bitsch and Riederhorn Municipalities.) For the past year, Lena Widmer has focused her Master…
Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
