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]
Developing Community bushfire resilience: integrating household, community and fire agency perspectives
Douglas Paton [pdf 281.3 kb]
Driving the Prepardeness Message Home
Issue 29 - Tim Prior PhD research. [pdf 291.8 kb]
'Know Your Patch to Grow Your Patch' - Briefing Paper
This Briefing Paper, 'Know Your Patch to Grow Your Patch' was written in May 2009 by Bushfire CRC Project Leader Alison Cottrell of the Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, as part of Research Project C1: Understanding Communities. [doc 2.0 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]
The underlying approach of the Understanding Communities
Alison Cottroll, Kath Larsen [pdf 442.5 kb]
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 - Living with Bushfire: The Thuringowa bushfire case study
Issue 9 - Living with bushfire: a community case study. [pdf 339.0 kb]
Understanding Communities - Overview
- An Overview - August 2005 [pdf 157.4 kb]