David Champagne is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of British Columbia and Vanier Scholar working on the governance and political economy of municipally led climate policies in the context of British Columbia’s wildfire seasons of 2017, 2018, and 2021. As a white settler scholar, he engages in an interdisciplinary approach drawing upon studies in urban political ecology, critical disaster research, indigenous and decolonial perspectives, and climate justice. In investigating processes of climate preparedness, he contrasts resilience policy efforts from local communities in the Cariboo region to those of the Vancouver metropolitan area. He uses a mixed-method approach which combines ethnography, in-depth interviews, archival research, policy analysis, and quantitative data relating to socio-economic disparities and exposure to environmental hazards. His goal is to show how through British Columbia’s multi-level governance of climate-related hazards, wildfire, air pollution, and heatwave-related injustices are perpetuated, and how communities envision more viable ways to coexist with extreme environmental hazards. Over the last years, he was a visiting scholar at Sciences Po Paris and at Freie Universität Berlin.