Report

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

Published : 2020

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Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation

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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..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The information contained in the report is drawn from research undertaken by staff at MSSI and broader, in and associated with, the Melbourne School of Design. The projects include: the ARC Linkage project, Building an Integrated System for Australian Bushfire Prevention, the Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation, funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, and the projects, Wildfire Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery in Coastal Tourist Destinations: the Case of Wye River, Australia, and Tourism Development and Local Resilience to Disasters: Self-organisation and Community Empowerment Perspectives, funded by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and the University of Melbourne, as well as doctoral research projects on bushfire.