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What perspectives are researchers bringing to understanding bushfire?
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Some key research perspectives are
Fire Behaviour Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Bushfire Climate Change Community Planning
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Each of these might sit within larger areas of research
Ecology Fire Behaviour Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Bushfire Land Management Climate Change Community Disaster Planning Planning Community development
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And be part of bigger issues
Fire Behaviour How can we be better stewards of our planet? How can we live safely? Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Bushfire Climate Change Community Planning How do we encourage more participatory citizenship? What might sustainable towns of the future look like?
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Each of them affects the other
Fire Behaviour Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Climate Change Community Planning
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But often they can act as silos
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And is it easy to forget that some key perspectives are being left out
Fire Behaviour Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Bushfire Climate Change Community ? Planning
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It relates to all levels
State Policies Local government Communities Landscapes Householders Strategies Individual Species Attitudes
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And these can operate on different time scales
Next week 5 year policy 15 year fire regimes 30 year population trends 100 year climate change
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It involves many different agencies
Fire Services Parks and Wildlife Water Weather Bureau Education Emergency Services Town Councils Power Roads Social Services Forestry
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And whoever is looking will see fire in a different way
Not on radar Natural A threat A battlefield Something to suffer
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So what does it mean to create integrative strategies enabling us to better live with fire?
Integrating different research perspectives within bigger fields of research with wider issues at different levels across different time scales involving many agencies and taking into account different ways of seeing
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