Wildfires in the Wildland Urban Interface: Exploring Resilience in WUI Communities (30 min) - Chemical Insights

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View this 30-minute course and pass the quiz to earn a certificate of completion for continuing education.

Today, wildfires are bigger, burning longer, causing more damage, and impacting public health more than ever before due to prolonged smoke exposure. Wildfires can quickly turn into a disaster when they enter the wildland urban interface (WUI), where structures and other human development meet or intermix with undeveloped wildland or vegetation fuel.

This course provides an overview of how wildfires are changing and the role of the WUI, with a particular focus on how fuel in the WUI differs from wildland fuels, the impacts of WUI emissions on human health, and mitigation opportunities to safeguard WUI communities.

This course is also available through the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC’s) online course catalog. Take the course there to have your GBCI CE hours reported automatically on your behalf. Course completions on Chemical Insights Research Institute’s E-Learning Center can be self-reported for CE hours.

View this 30-minute course and pass the quiz to earn a certificate of completion for continuing education.

Today, wildfires are bigger, burning longer, causing more damage, and impacting public health more than ever before due to prolonged smoke exposure. Wildfires can quickly turn into a disaster when they enter the wildland urban interface (WUI), where structures and other human development meet or intermix with undeveloped wildland or vegetation fuel.

This course provides an overview of how wildfires are changing and the role of the WUI, with a particular focus on how fuel in the WUI differs from wildland fuels, the impacts of WUI emissions on human health, and mitigation opportunities to safeguard WUI communities.

This course is also available through the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC’s) online course catalog. Take the course there to have your GBCI CE hours reported automatically on your behalf. Course completions on Chemical Insights Research Institute’s E-Learning Center can be self-reported for CE hours.

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