Know your patch to grow your patch

Fire Note 75: This Fire Note describes the Know Your Patch to Grow Your Patch guide, produced by Dr Alison Cottrell of James Cook University as an end product of the Bushfire CRC Understanding Communities project.

The guide (available here from the Bushfire CRC) is designed to assist fire agency personnel with the process of better understanding the local community’s perceptions, beliefs and needs. By understanding bushfire hazard perceptions and related issues within communities, fire agencies, land management groups and local government can better tailor the content of their community safety policies.