Social Pyrogeography

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Current Projects

Community perceptions, understanding and use of Bushfire Places of Last Resort (Nearby Safer Places) in Tasmania now and in the future
As a collaboration between the Fire Centre and the Tasmania Fire Service, this project aims to creat...
Shared responsibilities and barriers to community-led action
Anecdotal evidence suggests that community-based, grassroots initiatives linked to natural places an...
NDRRGP Developing a pathway for reducing the peri-urban backyard bushfire hazard in Hobart
This Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Grant Program (NDDRGP) funded project is centred around underst...
Sparking Conversations, Igniting Action
Sparking Conversations, Igniting Action is a joint initiative of the Greater Hobart councils – Clare...
Healthy Environments and Lives
HEAL Network The Australia-wide Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Network aims to catalyse resea...
T2-A5 Bushfire risk at the rural-urban interface
Natural Hazards Research Australia Co-designed, Stakeholder driven research into understanding of ho...
NDRRGP Tasmanian Bushfire Preparedness Survey
Tasmanians are at high risk from bushfire – 98 per cent of the state has been mapped as bushfire-pro...
David Bowman
ARC Laureate Fellowship Practical and Sustainable pathways to community coexistence with bushfires
This 5-year project addresses an urgent national and global challenge to policy and practice: the es...

Past Projects

NDRRGP: The Social and Biophysical effects of alternative strategies to reduce bushfire danger in Hobart
This project investigates how the City of Hobart’s strategies to reduce bushfire risk in subur...
Bushfires and Your Health
Reducing the health risks of bushfire and smoke: An online educationinitiative empowering Tasmania’s...
NDRRGP Developing pathways for reducing the peri-urban backyard bushfire hazard in Hobart
Our 2020-21 NDRRGP-funded project generated targeted pathways for engaging with residents. One such ...
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