Community safety and engagement

Beyond the incident

Missed the recent Beyond The Incident research forum? You can replay the forum and video by clicking on the event page
The forum highlighted the different and changing demands on emergency teams and managers operating at the strategic and operational levels. A range of information resources, including research reports and Fire Notes are available on this page. 

Bushfire decision support toolbox radiant heat flux modelling - Case study three 2013 Springwood fire, New South Wales

This report details the third of three case studies used to explore spatial modelling of RHF incident on a house during a fire as an alternative of the AS3959 approach for hazard classification. This case study uses data collected during and after the fire that occurred at Springwood in NSW in October 2013. The study develops detailed modelling of radiant heat incident on houses using topographic information, while accounting for vegetation (fuel) structural variability across the landscape.

Bushfire decision support toolbox radiant heat flux modelling - Case study three 2013 Springwood fire, New South Wales

J. E. Leonard, Blanchi, R., and Newnham, G. J., Bushfire decision support toolbox radiant heat flux modelling - Case study three 2013 Springwood fire, New South Wales, 2014.

This report details the third of three case studies used to explore spatial modelling of RHF incident on a house during a fire as an alternative of the AS3959 approach for hazard classification. This case study uses data collected during and after the fire that occurred at Springwood in NSW in October 2013. The study develops detailed modelling of radiant heat incident on houses using topographic information, while accounting for vegetation (fuel) structural variability across the landscape.

Life On The Edge: Living With Risk

Fire Note 129:  How do you motivate people living with fire risk on their doorstep to safeguard their properties and increase their chance of survival?  This research explores how householders perceive the value and risks of living in or near bushland and analyses the complex mix of hazards, risk, benefit and value perceptions which influence the way that they approach fire hazard. The results show people do recognise fire risk, but may treat it as a lower priority than other lifestyle values and factors, such as lack of time, cost barriers and aesthetic qualities.

Power to the people

Discover the range of online resources available now for Power To The People , the latest in our Research To Drive Change online forum series.  Researchers Dr Blythe McLennan (RMIT), Dr Michael Eburn (Australian National University) and Professor Barbara Norman (University of Canberra), together with lead end-user Mick Ayre of the Country Fire Service South Australia, explore challenges and opportunities for  fire risk to be incorporated into legislative frameworks and planning and policy processes.

Shared responsibility: A new way forward?

Fire Note 128: This research provides a broad conceptual framework to understand and progress the principle of shared responsibility in risk and disaster management.

The findings investigate the complexities and challenges of shared responsibility and address the fundamental questions: What is it and how do we do it?

As a starting point, the research recommends an inclusive and collaborative, inquiry-based approach between governments, communities and their individual citizens in scoping out their responsibility sharing challenges and processes.

Warning fatigue is not a myth

Fire Note 122: This completed PhD research examined the role that warning fatigue plays in the risk perceptions, warning response and decision-making processes of people living in bushfire-prone areas. The study showed that warning fatigue reduced attention to bushfire warnings, changing the way those surveyed thought about their bushfire risk and affecting their response to warnings. Unexpectedly, it was found that warning fatigue was highest at the beginning of the fire season, and decreased during the season.

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