"A Flooded Forest on Fire: Adapting to Climate Change," by Jake Meyers
Meyers commissioned a local artist to create a painting reflecting fire-dependent activities that community members depend on for their livelihoods: honey harvesting, smoking, cooking, poaching wildlife, and land use change.
MDP student Jake Meyers participated in the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) 2019 Student Showcase with a poster about his Fulbright-funded study analyzing the socioeconomic drivers of wildfire in Cambodia. The study was a vulnerability assessment and aimed to create a pathway towards adaptation by bringing together the physical natural and human dimensions in the socio-ecological system of Prek Toal, Cambodia.
"As climate change continues to make the threat of wildfires inevitable in Prek Toal, this new perspective of coexisting with fires while understanding its effects on multiple ecological and sociological scales is essential. In order to achieve greater resilience against wildfires in a changing climate, Prek Toal managers must adopt the adaptation process and view fire as an inevitable natural hazard that is driven by climatic changes and socio-economic stressors."