This project will investigate the community factors that
influence the capacity for community members to adapt to and
recover from wildfire in New Zealand. The initiative the project
emerged from a scoping project undertaken by ENSIS which reviewed
published literature and informal material on community resilience
and recovery following wildfires in Australasia.
The project identified the significant effects that are brought
to bear on a community in the aftermath of a fire. Numerous
consequences need to be taken into account. Simplistically these
can be broken down into four categories: economic, social, physical
and psychological changes. They must not be looked at independently
from each other, as they are all interconnected through a sense of
loss that is common to the people affected.
Project Link: C1 - Understanding
communities
Project Link: C4 - Risk communication
