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Prof

Alan March

Professor - Urban Planning
Architecture, Building and Planning
social sciences
public administration
science & technology
regional & urban planning
life sciences & biomedicine
environmental studies
environmental sciences & ecology
urban studies
urban planning
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Prof

Alan March

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Disaster Risk Reduction
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Alan March.

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INTEGRATING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION IN BUILT ENVIRONMENTS

2020 - 2023
Active
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BHNCRC Scholarship - Saimum Kabiir

2019 - 2022
Active
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Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation

2017 - 2021
Completed
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Improving understanding of building codes and their application that enhance resilience in NSW in response to the 2017 SLERA

2020 - 2020
Completed
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Building an integrated system for Australian bushfire prevention

This project aims to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent arson. Bushfires are a serious issue in Australia, made worse by climate ch..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Building an integrated system for Australian bushfire prevention

This project aims to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent arson. Bushfires are a serious issue in Australia, made worse by climate ch..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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UniMelb-University of Manchester Research Fund

2016 - 2019
Completed
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Best Practice Design Guide for Residential Building in Bushfire Prone Areas

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Transforming Housing: an affordable housing exposition for Melbourne

2016 - 2018
Completed
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: SUITABILITY INDICES OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT FIRE VULNERABILITY PROJECT

2011 - 2014
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

5

Internal Research Grant

5

Research Grant

4

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Alan March.

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Integrating wildfire risk management and spatial planning - A historical review of two Australian planning systems

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen, Simone Ruane, Alan March

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Recent wildfires burning throughout Australia highlight the vulnerability of settlements located in wildland urban interface (WUI)..

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Chapter 3.1 Disaster risk reduction beyond command and control: Mapping an Australian wildfire from a complex adaptive systems’ perspective

Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Alan March

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Developing guidelines for increasing the resilience of informal settlements exposed to wildfire risk using a risk-based planning approach

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen, Alan March

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Disaster risk reduction beyond command and control: mapping an Australian wildfire from a complex adaptive system’s perspective

Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Alan March

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter examines the challenges and opportunities of employing a resilience-building perspective to disaster risk reduction i..

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Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute’s submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements

Janet Stanley, Alan March, Jason Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran, Don Henry, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, John Wiseman, Sebastian Fastenrath, Belinda Young, Maria Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen

Report  |  2020

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Dimensions of Risk Justice and Resilience: Mapping Urban Planning’s Role Between Individual Versus Collective Rights

Alan March, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, janet Stanley

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter applies a justice framework to the complex of dilemmas between individual rights and the public good. It uses the cas..

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Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute & Melbourne School of Design’s submission to the Inquiry into the 2019-2020 Victorian Fire Season

Janet Stanley, Alan March, Jason Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran, Donald Henry, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, John Wiseman, Sebastian Fastenrath, Belinda Young, Maria Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen

Report  |  2020

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Is climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees

Anna Hurlimann, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Judy Bush, Alan March

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environmental Education Research

The profession of urban planning contributes to the design and spatial arrangement of cities, and has been recognized as a key pot..

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Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk-management in Victoria

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen, Alan March, Justin Leonard, Mark Holland, Raphaele Blanchi

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Bushfires represent an increased risk for people and properties in exposed urban areas. The integration of bushfire risk managemen..

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Challenges for wildfire-prone urban-rural interfaces: the case of Melbourne

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen, Alan March, Janet Stanley

Journal article  |  2019  |  Urbano

Wildfires are an ever-increasing threat for many residents of urban-rural interfaces located in wildfire-prone areas. Spatial plan..

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Keyword Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Construction Planning
Natural Hazards
Adaptation To Climate Change
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Human Geography
Terrestrial Systems and Management
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Teaching and Curriculum

News

Displaying the 6 most recent news articles by Alan March.

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Disasters, planning and Australian tourism

Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Alan March

Australia’s devastating bushfire season of 2019-2020 highlights our country’s vulnerabilities to the effects of climate change.The events al..

February 28, 2020
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Black Saturday: Urban sprawl and climate change remain key dangers

Janet Stanley, Alan March

In 2009, about 400 bushfires, many of which subsequently joined together over time as larger fire complexes, raged across Victoria, from the..

February 5, 2019
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Black Saturday: Bushfire planning as our population grows

Alan March, Janet Stanley, Constanza Gonzalez Mathiesen

The aftermath of the 2009 Black Saturday fires underscored the importance of how we design our settlements as a key factor in dealing with A..

February 4, 2019
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Swan's splurge alone can't fix the cracks in Infrastructure Australia

Alan March

Fixing Australia's infrastructure policy regime will be a long, bumpy road. AAPAustralia’s ability to provide appropriate infrastructure..

June 30, 2017
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Bushfires: have you treated your risks?

Alan March, Constanza Gonzalez Mathiesen

The elemental power and intensity of bushfires can wreak widespread destruction beyond our abilities to control them. However, we can make o..

February 23, 2017
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Why boosting immigration or fertility won't fix our ageing population

Chris Lloyd

Sleeper: we'll retire later even with a boost to fertility rates. AAPMany public debates come down to facts – issues like “Whose costing..

October 7, 2015
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2017

Planning Institute of Australia (National) Commendation, Planner of the Year
2016

Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria) Planner of the Year
2014

Planning Institute of Australia, Cutting Edge Research
2011

Tertiary Bushfire Course Melbourne University $100,000 in first round

Building Commission & DPCD
2011

Climate Change Adaptation: Suitability Indices of Human Settlement Fire Vulnerability $192,000

Natural Disaster Resilience Grants Scheme
2010

Institutional Resilience in Bushfire Prone Areas: Learning from Experience $50,000

Interdisciplinary Fund
2010

Benefits of the Wildfire Management Overlay $15,000

Country Fire Authority
2010

Urban Design Principles for Reducing Bushfire Risk $40,000

Collaborative Research Fund with Country Fire Authority
2008

Professional Teaching and Learning $40,000

Provost Grant
2012

Adjunct Researcher and Fellow, Global Risk Forum, Davos, Switzerland

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor - Urban Planning

Architecture, Building and Planning

Certified Practising Planner

Planning Institute of Australia

Education

URBAN PLANNING

University of Melbourne

TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING (Distinction)

Curtin University of Technology

Links

Languages

English

International Linkages

Bogazici (Bosphorus) University

Turkey

Global Risk Forum Davos

Switzerland