Land Use Planning and Bushfire Risk: CFA Referrals and the February 2009 Victorian Fire Area

Urban Policy and Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-54

  Holland, Mark ^a   March, Alan ^b   Yu, Jun ^b   Jenkins, Adam ^a  

^a Wildfire Management Community Risk Management Department   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

bushfire; management; overlay; planning; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876122663     PISSN: 08111146     EISSN: 14767244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2012.736255     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Barrow, G. J. 1945. A survey of houses affected in the Beaumaris Fire, January 14, 1944. Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 18(1): 27-37.
2. Blanchi, R. & Leonard, J. E. (2005) Investigation of Bushfire Attack Mechanisms Resulting in House Loss in the ACT Bushfire 2003, Report for Bushfire CRC, CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology, Highett, Australia
3. Boura, J. 1994. Fire biodiversity: the effects and effectiveness of fire management. Biodiversity Series, 8: 1-8.
4. Bushfire CRC (2009) Bushfires Research Response: Final Report, October (Canberra)
5. Council of Australian Governments (2008) National Climate Change Adaptation Framework (Canberra)
6. Country Fire Authority. 2007. Building in a Wildfire Management Overlay: Applicant's Kit, Melbourne: Country Fire Authority.
7. Country Fire Authority (2008) Practice Note PN 0005 Wildfire Management Overlay Mapping Process (Burwood)
8. Department of Premier and Cabinet (2009) Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Terms of Reference, State Government of Victoria, 16 February
9. Department of Sustainability and Environment. 2006. Victorian Planning Provisions, Melbourne: Victorian State Government.
10. Department of Sustainability and Environment (2009) Fire Maps-Statewide Overview, Available at http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/CA256F310024B628/0/9E5B815B204F8C6ACA257590000E5661/$File/StatewideFiresOverview_20090406.pdf (accessed 5 August 2009)
11. Department of Sustainability and Environment. 2011. Victorian Planning Provisions, Melbourne: Victorian State Government.
12. Government of South Australia (2009) Minister's Code, Undertaking Development in Bushfire Protection Areas, February 2009 (as amended May 2010), FIS 23140 (Minister for Urban Development and Planning)
13. Government of Victoria. 1987. Planning and Environment Act 1987, Melbourne: State Government Printer.
14. Hughes, R. and Mercer, D. 2008. Planning to reduce risk: the wildfire management overlay in Victoria. Australia, Geographical Research, 47(2): 124-141.
15. March, A. and Henry, S. 2007. A better future from imagining the worst: land use planning & training responses to natural disaster. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 22(3): 17-22.
16. Maughan, D. & Bosomworth, K. (2007) Theory into Practice: A Case Study of Vegetation Management and House Bushfire Survival, Available at http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/biodiversity/pdfs/bushfire/maughan_duncan.pdf (accessed 25 September 2007)
17. NSW Rural Fire Service (2012) Guidelines for Single Dwelling Development Applications (Sydney)
18. Ramsay, G. C. & McArthur, N. A. (1995) Building in the urban interface: lessons from the January 1994 Sydney bushfires, Paper presented at the Bushfires 95 Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
19. Standards Australia (2009) Australian Standard AS3959-2009 Construction of Buildings in Bushfire-Prone Areas (Amendment 3), Sydney
20. Teague, Hon. B., McLeod, R. and Pascoe, S. 2009. Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report, No. 225, Melbourne: Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
21. Teague, Hon. B., McLeod, R. and Pascoe, S. 2010. Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Final Report, Melbourne: Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
22. Western Australian Planning Commission (with Fire and Emergency Services Authority) (2010) Planning for Bush Fire Protection Guidelines, Edition 2, May (Perth)
23. Wilson, A. A. G. and Ferguson, I. S. 1984. Fight or flee?-a case study of the Mount Macedon bushfire. Australian Forestry, 47(4): 230-236.