Fire research and adaptive management publications

Working in collaboration with Victorian, national and international research groups, we have many ongoing projects across the biological, physical and social sciences. This investment increases our capability to manage risks and deliver for all Victorian communities.

Research programs enables us to gain understanding and management of bushfire to:

• improve ability to characterize and model severe bushfire
• improve decision making about where to invest resources and plan bushfire risk reduction activities
• improve bushfire and planned burn mapping
• improve understanding and ability to mitigate the impact of bushfires on communities and communicate that risk to communities
• improve ability to manage and communicate the impact of smoke during bushfires and planned burns
• improve understanding of the impact of planned burning on biodiversity
• improve ability to protect and promote fire sensitive species and habitats within foothills forests
• improve data collection and data management in a way that better supports strategic bushfire management plan processes and guides the needs for future research.

Fire and adaptive management reports

We have been publishing a series of research reports as “Fire and adaptive management reports” or earlier “Fire research reports” since 1977. These reports are the final outputs from many of our research projects. It’s important to know that our research has many other outputs, such as complex computer modelling capacity, or improvements in data to improve models.

For each report the title, authors, report number and publication date are listed in the tables below. They are grouped by theme as follows:

• Community: understanding, impacts and values
• Smoke modelling
• Bushfire management
• Hazard management
• Ecosystem, monitoring and resilience
• Aircraft and fire retardant
• Pine plantations: fuels and planned burning
• Integrating and evaluating science

For accessible versions of reports contact us directing your enquiry to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Unit in the Forest, Fire and Regions Group, and quote the report(s) you require.

Hard copies of reports that are still in print may be purchased from:

Information Victoria
Level 20, 80 Collins Street
Melbourne 3000

1300 366 356 for the cost of a local call, anywhere in Australia
Fax: 03 9208 3316

www.bookshop.vic.gov.au

Community: understanding, impact and values

Smoke modelling

Bushfire Management

Hazard Management

Ecosystem, monitoring and resilience

Aircraft and fire retardant

Pine plantations - fuels and planned burning

Integrating and evaluating science