The Environmental Law Center is thrilled to welcome Molly Mowery, AICP, executive director of the Community Wildlife Planning Center, for the 16th Annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law.

Many communities across the U.S. face an increased threat of wildfire due to record-breaking heat, prolonged drought, and other climate change impacts. In addition, economic and social drivers such as shifting land use patterns are exacerbating vulnerable development conditions in wildfire-prone areas. This lecture will explore the challenges and opportunities of resilient land use planning policies, regulations, and other strategies necessary to confront wildfire hazard and help planners understand their role in taking action at the local, state, and national levels. While focused on wildfire, this lecture is also intended to broadly inform the larger discussion of planning for natural hazards within the planning profession.

Free and open to the public, this event will be livestreamed at vermontlaw.edu/live and on Facebook.