Community Bushfire Safety |
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| Editor:
| Handmer, John
Haynes, Katharine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-643-09426-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Publisher: | CSIRO Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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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 complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book...
More Description 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 complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management.