Planning for Bushfire on the Peri-urban fringe
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Guiding question for the case study:
What is the usefulness of applying theories of adaptive management and resilience to strategic approaches to land use planning and environmental management in bushfire-prone areas of those peri-urban fringes where bushfire risks are predicted to increase as a result of changes in climate?
Mike Brown, Chief Officer, Tasmania Fire Service
Aim: to develop a bushfire planning or management strategy to build social-ecological resilience of a peri-urban area which is prone to bushfire
What we mean by socio-ecological resilience
Resilience … is defined as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks (Walker et al. 2004)
Folke et al. (2005, 442-3) also describe resilience as “the extent to which a system can absorb recurrent natural and human perturbations and continue to regenerate without slowly degrading or even unexpectedly flipping into undesirable states”.
What can help you in this task?
1. Julie's guide - this helps you manage the task, gives tips on how to manage the group work using your team WIKI pages, provides the assessment criteria, reflection questions, info on how to navigate the site, and a site-map
2. Course theory in Adaptive management and resilience - see Mylo pages (only available if you have enrolled in the course)
3. The Case Study - Mt Nelson.
We have provided an initial environmental scope of Mt Nelson showing the key agencies, stakeholders or aspects which need to be considered. These link to further pages with interviews with stakeholders on audio or video, powerpoint presentations with voice over or links to relevant documentation, websites or research. We include a google map of the area with links to key assets.
4. Resources - building understanding of bushfire
- Bushfire Knowledge Perspectives - there are key knowledge perspectives which can be used as interrogatory lenses for the Case Study - fire behaviour, fire ecology, fire management, community, policy, planning, fire operations and climate change. We provide some summaries of these perspectives with links to research and researchers. However, these are in contested areas and need to be treated critically.
- Key change drivers relating to bushfire - we give you some projected scenarios for 2020.
- The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission - this brings together key bushfire researchers, planners and land managers to explore critical questions. We provide some summaries of sessions on prescribed burning, risk assessment and planning with links to the original transcripts. These are a valuable resource in honing in on the leading edge issues.
- Recommended sites on bushfire research are the Bushfire CRC and the Australasian Fire Services Knowledge Web .
5. FORUM - during the course of this module a number of local people from different agencies will be on-line and available to respond to questions or discussions on this WIKI's FORUM. You can also use the forum to create discussions
6. Student Pages - a page has been set up for each group using tables to help you work through the task. You are assessed on what you put on this page. You can add further pages if you need to.