Community safety and engagement
Mind the Policy Gap: Planning for Fire Risk and Emergency Management in the Context of Climate Change
Reforming the Insurance Regime from a Post Disaster Recovery Regime to the Creation af a Resilient Australia
PhD project
Litigation and Australian Bushfires
Predicting fire from dry lightning
Fire Note 84: Fires caused by lightning are responsible for a large proportion of the area burnt by bushfires throughout Australia and the world.
Bushfire CRC researcher Dr Andrew Dowdy and project leader Graham Mills – both with the Bureau of Meteorology – tracked lightning data to identify when and how often fires were likely to follow.
Activity Modelling For Risk Assessment and Emergency Management Applications Focussing on Peri-Urban Regions
Sharing Responsibility-Presentation to Community Safety Group 14 April 2011
Sharing Responsibility – Feedback:
Presentation to AFAC Community Safety Group
Launceston April 14th, 2011
Marysville Black Saturday Bushfire Survivors' Experiences of preparedness, survival, attachment, loss, grief, resilience and recovery.
David Barton, from RMIT University, examined the concept of loss, from definitional stages through to the stages of recovery. His thesis draws on his personal insights of his experiences into the Black Saturday fires, as well as the experiences of his Marysville community.
Volunteers - a final report
Two final reports from the Bushfire CRC’s seven-year Enhancing Volunteerism project are ready to read on our website.
Understanding fire law
Fire Note 82: Fire agencies and the community need to understand the limit of the law as it applies to fire planning and emergencies and to advocate for reforms to ensure that the legal system does not impose undue burdens on communities that must live with the risk of fire.
This research has reviewed the findings of post-event inquiries, judicial decisions and insurance claims to identify how law is applied to the fire ground and to determine if legal principles are an impediment to effective fire management.