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All Content © Bushfire CRC 2007

Books

Communities Living with Hazards

Eds. David King and Alison Cottrell.

Published 2007 By Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University. ISBN 0 86443 7528

Book Chapters

Fire risk in Aboriginal peri-urban landscapes in northern Australia: Case studies from western Cape York Peninsula
Monaghan, Jim. In Communities Living with Hazards. Link to publisher's site.

Bushfires at the urban-rural interface
Balcombe, Luke. In Communities Living with Hazards. Link to publisher's site.

Living with bushfires: What do people expect?
Bushnell S, Cottrell A. In Communities Living with Hazards. Link to publisher's site.


Documents & Reports

Awareness of bushfire risk
Issue 20 - Tamborine Mountain Case Study, Understanding Communities. [pdf 357.5 kb]


Community engagement: weather matters in indigenous communities
Workshop report and evaluation. [pdf 4.9 Mb]


Report on refugee communities and fire knowledge
The Sudanese refugees and Fire Hazard study has been undertaken as part of the Ethnic Communities Project, and specifically targets the needs of African refugees, in particular Sudanese refugees. [pdf 1.8 Mb]


Thuringowa Bushfire Case Study - Technical Report
by Sally Bushnell, Alison Cottrell, Margaret Spillman & David Lowe
School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography, James Cook University. [pdf 1.0 Mb]


Understanding Communities - Overview
- An Overview - August 2005 [pdf 157.4 kb]


Presentations & Posters

Alison Cottrell
Assessing community perceptions of fire risk - for fire services at the local level [pdf 2.2 Mb]


Alison Cottrell
Living with threat - bushfire communities. Presented at the first Bushfire CRC conference - Perth 2004. [pdf 78.4 kb]


Alison Cottrell
Understanding communities living with bushfire - The Thuringowa case study. [pdf 109.2 kb]


Understanding communities - locality remains important - BCRC / AFAC 2005 Poster
The aim of the Understanding Communities Project (C1) is to increase community resilience to bushfires. [pdf 88.6 kb]


Bulletin

Understanding Communities research update bulletins can be found here.