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The world has been experiencing worsening wildfire conditions for decades, and in California the situation is particularly bad. The Ethics Center staff and other scholars address some of the key ethical issues surrounding these disasters.
Perspectives
Principles for Utility Regulation in the Face of Increasing Wildfire Risk by Catherine J.K. Sandoval, associate professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and former commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission
Background on California Wildfires by Efren Oxlaj Tambito, Sam Packard, and Liz Rickley, 2018-19 environmental ethics fellows
Global Warming-Enhanced Wildfires by Iris Stewart-Frey, associate professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and Ed Maurer, professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering
What Ethical Issues Are Involved in Wildfires? by Brian Patrick Green, director of Technology Ethics
Our World, Our Responsibility by Yael Kidron, former director of Character Education
Wildfires, Ethics, and the Biblical by David DeCosse, director of Campus Ethics
From the Ashes by Miriam Schulman, former associate director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics