Michael Coughlan, Institute for a Sustainable Environment

Michael Coughlan portrait

Michael Coughlan

Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments
Associate Director, Ecosystem Workforce Program
mcoughla@uoregon.edu
Practice Areas: Long term human-environment interactions, Historical Ecology of Landscapes, Cultural and Traditional Fire Use, Forest and Fire Management, Landscape Conservation, Societal responses to Wildfires and Wildfire Smoke

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Biography:

Michael Coughlan is an environmental anthropologist. His work examines social, cultural, and ecological aspects of landscape conservation with a specific focus on fire management. He uses a social-ecological systems approach to study historical and contemporary interactions between society and wildfires.

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