Transcript What perspectives are researchers bringing to understanding

What perspectives are researchers
bringing to understanding bushfire?
Some key research perspectives
are
Fire
Behaviour
Fire
Operations
Fire
Ecology
Fire
Management
Policy
Bushfire
Climate
Change
Community
Planning
Each of these might sit within
larger areas of research
Ecology
Fire
Behaviour
Fire
Operations
Fire
Ecology
Fire
Management
Land
Management
Policy
Bushfire
Climate
Change
Community
Planning
Community
development
Disaster
Planning
And be part of bigger issues
How can we
be better
stewards of
our planet?
Fire
Behaviour
Fire
Operations
Fire
Ecology
Fire
Management
How can we
live safely?
Policy
Bushfire
Climate
Change
Community
Planning
How do we encourage
more participatory
citizenship?
What might sustainable
towns of the future look
like?
Each of them affects the other
Fire
Behaviour
Fire
Operations
Fire
Ecology
Fire
Management
Policy
Climate
Change
Community
Planning
But often they can act as silos
And is it easy to forget that some
key perspectives are being left out
Fire
Behaviour
Fire
Operations
Fire
Ecology
Fire
Management
Policy
Bushfire
Climate
Change
Community
Planning
?
It relates to all levels
State
Policies
Local government
Communities
Landscapes
Householders
Strategies
Individual
Species
Attitudes
And these can operate on different
time scales
Next
week
5 year
policy
15 year fire regimes
30 year population trends
100 year climate change
It involves many different agencies
Fire
Services
Weather
Bureau
Parks
and
Wildlife
Water
Education
Emergency
Services
Town Councils
Roads
Power
Social
Services
Forestry
And whoever is looking will see
fire in a different way
Not on
radar
Natural
A threat
A battlefield
Something to
suffer
So what does it mean to create integrative
strategies enabling us to better live with fire?
Integrating
• different research perspectives
• within bigger fields of research
• with wider issues
• at different levels
• across different time scales
• involving many agencies
• and taking into account different ways of seeing