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Prof

Alan March

Professor - Urban Planning
Architecture, Building and Planning
Disaster
Planning
Hazards
Emergency
Urban
Bushfire
Risk
Climate
Resilience
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Prof

Alan March

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

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INTEGRATING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION IN BUILT ENVIRONMENTS

This project aims to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation across Australia’s built environment sectors: de..

2020 - 2023
Active
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Building an integrated system for Australian bushfire prevention

Building an integrated system for Australian bushfire prevention. This project aims to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent arson. Bu..

2016 - 2022
Completed
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BHNCRC Scholarship - Saimum Kabiir

2019 - 2022
Completed
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Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation

2017 - 2021
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 - 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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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

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Transforming the agency and influence of landscape architects in climate change actions: An empirical analysis of barriers and facilitators

S Moosavi, A Hurlimann, J Nielsen, J Bush, G Warren Myers, A March

Journal article  |  2023  |  Landscape and Urban Planning

The way we plan and design our landscapes, infrastructure, and cities has to transform if we want to meet the needs of our society..

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Uncanny Revelations

Alan March

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Long-established rules and emergent challenges: spatial planning and wildfires in Chile

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen, Alan March

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL PLANNING STUDIES

It is generally expected that spatial planning integrates wildfire risk reduction considerations in areas affected by this hazard...

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'Rethinking the way we practice our professions': social-ecological resilience for built environment professionals

Anna Hurlimann, Ruth Beilin, Alan March

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Urbanisation and industrialisation have contributed to significant and detrimental changes in the earth’s natural environments. Th..

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Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment-A review of literature

Anna C Hurlimann, Josh Nielsen, Sareh Moosavi, Judy Bush, Georgia Warren-Myers, Alan March

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Cities (built environments) produce a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, making a significant contribution..

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Towards the transformation of cities: A built environment process map to identify the role of key sectors and actors in producing the built environment across life stages

AC Hurlimann, Georgia Warren-Myers, Josh Nielsen, Sareh Moosavi, Judy Bush, Alan March

Journal article  |  2022  |  Cities

Cities must transform in order to address the challenge of climate change and to achieve societal ambitions such as the sustainabl..

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Embracing the challenges of urban resilience

A March, C Gonzalez-Mathiesen

Journal article  |  2022  |  Australian Journal of Emergency Management

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A Method for Assessing Building Codes for Natural Hazard Resilience: Report for Resilience NSW

Alan March, Crystal Legacy, Georgia Warren-Myers, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes

Report  |  2021

Building codes regulate the design and materials of structures in the built environment, often in parallel with related processes ..

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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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Heatwave and Building Codes in New South Wales: Issues and Prospects

Alan March, Crystal Legacy, Georgia Warren-Myers, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes

Report  |  2021

This report reviews key literature and considers the overall comprehensiveness of the NSW building codes in terms of their contrib..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

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

News

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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 ..

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 th..

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 ..

February 4, 2019
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The unexpected gift of bones

John Clement, Rita Hardiman

The most durable bone in the body is the mid-shaft of the femur, or thighbone. In nature, when bodies are left unburied, the elements event..

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..

February 23, 2017
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Send us baby food, board games - and some barmaids

Joy Damousi, Alan March

Banner image: Three year old Poppy Magoulis rides a tricycle through the ruin of Darwin. Picture: Bruce Howard, News Corporation Australia.

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