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Title Community bushfire safety / editors, John Handmer and Katharine Haynes.

Publication Info. Collingwood, VIC : CSIRO Pub., [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management. The wide range of issues covered in this volume include research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonists ra.
Contents Foreword: a view from Australia; Foreword: a view from North America; Statement: Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre; Acknowledgments; Author biographies; Interface bushfire community safety; Understanding communities; Assisting the householder and small business operator; Risk prevention and communication; Policy and institutional issues; The future with a warmer climate; References; Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Fire management -- Australia.
Fire management.
Australia.
Forest fires -- Australia -- Prevention.
Forest fires.
Dwellings -- Fires and fire prevention -- Australia.
Dwellings -- Fires and fire prevention.
Wildfires -- Prevention and control.
Wildfires -- Prevention and control.
Sociology, Rural -- Fires and fire prevention -- Australia.
Sociology, Rural.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Handmer, John W.
Haynes, Katharine, 1977-
Other Form: Print version: Community bushfire safety. Collingwood, VIC : CSIRO Pub., ©2008 9780643094260 0643094261 (OCoLC)184829524
ISBN 9780643095618 (electronic book)
0643095616 (electronic book)
9780643094260 (paperback)
0643094261 - not on item

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