Preparing ... for what? Developing multi-dimensional measures of community wildfire preparedness for researchers, practitioners and households

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 887-896

  Dunlop, Patrick D ^a,d   McNeill, Ilona M ^a,d,e   Boylan, Jessica L ^a,d   Morrison, David L ^b,d   Skinner, Timothy C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

bushfire; CHWPA; HWiPR; measure development; measurement; standardised.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907216205     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF13141     Document Type: Article

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