Responsible Innovation Toolkit

• Responsible FireTech: Innovation Playbook. Forthcoming.

• Responsible Innovation Readiness Assessments. June 2026.

• Ready or not? Aligning FireTech for Wildfire Resilience. Assessment tool and case studies for Responsible FireTech Deployment & Adoption. June 2026.

• Responsible FireTech Framework (RFTF). December 2025.

State of FireTech Reports

• The State of FireTech 2025 Annual Update. December 2025.

• Fueling Innovation to Navigate the Wildfire Challenge Ahead, Stanford Social Innovation Review Article. January 2025.

• The State of FireTech 2024 Annual Update. December 2024.

• The State of FireTech 2023 Annual Update (main report). December 2023.

• The State of FireTech 2023 Annual Update In Brief (summary). December 2023.

• The State of FireTech: Progress, Gaps, Futures. (2022). Wildfire Technology Funders Group. Compiled by Wonder Labs, California, USA.

Invited Articles and Op-eds

• Fueling Innovation to Navigate the Wildfire Challenge Ahead, Stanford Social Innovation Review Article. January 2025

• Unpacking the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission’s Recommendations for FireTech applications. December 2023. 

• Increasing National Resilience through an Open Disaster Data Initiative (2023). Recommendation to the Federal Wildland Fire Management and Mitigation Commission. Federation of American Scientists. Wildland Fire Policy Accelerator and Day One Project. June 2023.

• Lakhina, S.J. (2023). Invest in worker-led industries for whole of community wildfire resilience (2023). Recommendation to the Federal Wildland Fire Management and Mitigation Commission. Submitted through the Federation of American Scientists Wildland Fire Policy Accelerator. Published 24 April 2023. 

• Lakhina, S.J. et al., (2022). Care, Equity, and Justice: Reimagining the Forestry and Fire Workforce (2022). Research Counts Article. Natural Hazards Center. December 12, 2022.

• Lakhina, S.J., Lakhina, A. (2022). Technology Entrepreneurship and Wildfire Risk Management. Chapter in: Ray, P., Shaw, R. (eds) Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. 

• Invited blog (2021). Wildfires in a pandemic: What we learned from 2020 and how to plan for what’s next. Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network. 8 July 2021. 

• Research report (2021). Wildfire preparedness and evacuation planning in a pandemic: Case studies from California and Colorado. CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Science Research. Wonder Labs, California.

• Journal article (2021). '"How do we actually do convergence" for disaster resilience? Cases from Australia and the United States.'International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.

• Invited blog (2021). Engaging with care: Incorporating ethics and compassion into disaster research.Natural Hazards Center. University of Colorado, Boulder. 

• Invited blog (2021). What we mean by CARE in a year of cascading crises: Living with disasters and disabilities.Northern California Grantmakers.

• Invited blog (2021). What we mean by CARE in a year of cascading disasters: Putting CARE into action for rural older adults. Northern California Grantmakers.

• Invited blog (2021). ​What we mean by CARE in a year of cascading crises.Northern California Grantmakers. 

• Letter to the Presidential team on implementing a Policy, People, Places approach to systemic risk governance (2020). Wonder Labs' submission to the Natural Hazards Center's One Thousand Letters Project.

• Invited Op-Ed (2020). Rethinking the Wildland-Urban Interface. Bay Nature Magazine.