What perspectives are researchers bringing to understanding bushfire?

Some key research perspectives are Fire Behaviour Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Bushfire Climate Change Community Planning

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

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?

Each of them affects the other Fire Behaviour Fire Operations Fire Ecology Fire Management Policy Climate Change Community Planning

But often they can act as silos

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

It relates to all levels State Policies Local government Communities Landscapes Householders Strategies Individual Species Attitudes

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

It involves many different agencies Fire Services Parks and Wildlife Water Weather Bureau Education Emergency Services Town Councils Power Roads Social Services Forestry

And whoever is looking will see fire in a different way Not on radar Natural A threat A battlefield Something to suffer

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