Leadership in Mountain and Wildland Professions in Canada

Author(s): Rachel Reimer, Christine Eriksen
Book Title: Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2022

Mountain and wildland environments present seasonally specific hazards that require risk management strategies for people to coexist safely among them. This chapter written by Rachel Reimer and CSS' Christine Eriksen explores the intersectional gendered dimensions of professional working cultures situated in mountain and wildland environments. It focuses on winter guiding and avalanche work, and summer wildland firefighting in Canada’s mountainous western provinces.

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