ABSTRACT
In 2015, a major wildfire event resulted in the largest evacuation ever experienced in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Such extreme events become layered onto existing social landscapes and inequalities, resulting in impacts that are unevenly distributed across populations. As climate change contributes to the increasing intensity and occurrence of hazard events, there is a growing need to understand how gender and other social identities intersect in complex ways to shape differential experiences and capacities to respond in forest-based communities. To date, little research has applied intersectionality to the empirical study of climate hazards in the Global North. Responding to this gap, this chapter synthesizes findings from an intersectional analysis of the La Ronge wildfire event. It provides a reflection on the methodological approach and its insights for the development of more inclusive emergency and adaptation planning as communities continue to live with wildfire and plan for fires in the future.
