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These
fire articles provide a framework for implementation of an ecosystem management
framework in fire planning of fire-prone areas. Please contact me if you
any further queries on the approaches outlined in the articles below.
- Approaches
to Fire Planning in New South Wales (1993)
At the
Burning Question Conference in 1993, I put forward a framework for fire
planning in New South Wales that used Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) as part of an integrated planning approach at most levels of fire
planning currently in vogue today. The paper preceded the lesgislative
changes that occurred in New South Wales following the 1994 bushfires.
Having stepped out of the fire planning role in the last five years
to undertake Regional Forest Agreement Work, I have not seen any major
changes in fire planning approaches that will advance ecological and
social fire planning.
- Churchill
Fellowship Report - Fire and Ecosystem Management (1998)
The Lord
Mayor's 1994 Bushfire Fund funded my 1996 Churchill Fellowship to
undertake a two month study in America and North America. The study
tour enabled me to study fire management and biodiversity indicators
in an ecosystem management framework. The background to this study
was contained in my original proposal submitted to the Churchill Foundation
in May 1995.
- Report
into 2003 Fires on Behalf of Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Bushfires
(2003)
As an
independent consultant I provided the Committee with a scientific
perspective on the background factors into the 2003 fires, a possible
scenario for fuel management, impacts of grazing on fuel loads, and
the Australian Incident Management System (AIMS). The report is included
as an Appendix to the main Committee report which was published in
November 2003.
Other
Scientific Articles or Reports on Fire Management in the Blue Mountains
of New South Wales include:
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