Wildfire Smoke Clean Air Centers: Identifying Barriers and Opportunities for Improvement from California Practitioner and Community Perspectives
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- As wildfire risk is projected to increase across most of the world, exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing global health issue. Clean air centers (CACs), public buildings designated to provide improved air quality to the public during a wildfire smoke event, have emerged as a community-oriented public health response to smoke. Some experts see CACs as the most effective way to reduce population exposure to wildfire smoke. Yet how and why smoke-vulnerable groups utilize CACs, as well as how CACs may be improved to meet their needs, is not well understood. Here, I explore these questions through exploratory interviews with two groups of stakeholders in California CAC development: practitioners and members of a community vulnerable to wildfire smoke. My findings suggest that a gap remains between California’s CACs and the needs of vulnerable groups. By comparing community and practitioner perspectives, I identify opportunities to close this gap.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Date modified | December 5, 2022 |
| Publication date | May 24, 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Treves, Ryan |
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| Thesis advisor | Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle |
Subjects
| Subject | Air quality, community-based research, cleaner air space, clean air center, community resilience, clean air shelter, wildfire smoke |
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| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC).
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- Treves, R. (2022). Wildfire Smoke Clean Air Centers: Identifying Barriers and Opportunities for Improvement from California Practitioner and Community Perspectives. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/gv838ht9465
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Undergraduate Honors Theses, Doerr School of Sustainability
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