Marshall Burke '03

Talk Title: Learning to live with wildfire

Wildfire risk is rapidly increasing in California and much of the US, a result of a century of fire suppression and a warming climate that has made fuels more flammable. I'll discuss the many causes of this growing risk, its consequences for air quality and health, and a range of potential solutions that could help us learn to live with this growing risk.

Bio: Marshall Burke is associate professor of Global Environmental Policy in the Doerr School of Sustainability, Deputy Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute, Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Stanford Institute on Economic Policy Research. He is also Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on social and economic impacts of environmental change, and on measuring and understanding economic livelihoods across the developing world. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, and a BA in International Relations from Stanford. He is also co-founder of AtlasAI, a start-up using satellites and machine learning to measure livelihoods.