Community Bushfire Safety

Handmer John Haynes Katharine
Community Bushfire Safety

Community Bushfire Safety

Handmer John Haynes Katharine

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"Community Bushfire Safety" brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management.

Managing community safety requires a diversity of knowledge and an understanding of the many social processes that shape and ultimately determine a community's resilience to bushfire.
The wide range of issues covered in this volume reflects this diversity, including research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonist's rationale; the influence of the media; the role of economics in bushfire management and decision-making; understanding declines in fire brigade volunteerism; bushfire safety policy and its implementation; the effectiveness of community education and risk reduction schemes; and, modes of building ignition.The editors have produced a book which will be accessible to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and students. While the research reported has been undertaken entirely in Australia, much of the material is generic and is likely to be relevant and useful to those dealing with community bushfire safety elsewhere.

Author:   Handmer John Haynes Katharine
Publisher:   CSIRO Publishing
ISBN:  

9780643094260


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   01 February 2008
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

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"Community Bushfire Safety" brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management.

Managing community safety requires a diversity of knowledge and an understanding of the many social processes that shape and ultimately determine a community's resilience to bushfire.
The wide range of issues covered in this volume reflects this diversity, including research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonist's rationale; the influence of the media; the role of economics in bushfire management and decision-making; understanding declines in fire brigade volunteerism; bushfire safety policy and its implementation; the effectiveness of community education and risk reduction schemes; and, modes of building ignition.The editors have produced a book which will be accessible to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and students. While the research reported has been undertaken entirely in Australia, much of the material is generic and is likely to be relevant and useful to those dealing with community bushfire safety elsewhere.

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Author:   Handmer John Haynes Katharine
Publisher:   CSIRO Publishing
ISBN:  

9780643094260


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   01 February 2008
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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