Mental health burden of wildfires weighs on vulnerable populations

Various UBC experts weighed in on the impacts of forest fires in B.C.

Steven Taylor, a professor of psychiatry, told Metro News decades of research show human beings are very resilient to stress.

Metro News also quoted Jeremy Stone, a researcher with UBC’s school of community and regional planning, about how people from different socio-economic backgrounds deal with natural disasters.

Lori Daniels, a UBC forestry professor, was also quoted in The Province about the risk of forest fires in Metro Vancouver.