Research Advisory Forum - northern Australia

02 Apr 2019

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North Australia's Fire Management Forum 2018.

The Northern Australia Research Advisory Forum (RAF) is an opportunity to bring together a range of CRC projects and research streams from the physical and social sciences that are contributing evidence, practices and support for policy development focused specifically on the north of Australia.

The Northern Australia RAF will seek to explore and workshop these above themes. The program will bring together practitioners and researchers with fire, economics, communications and community risk management expertise to explore how the knowledge emerging from research programs across Australa is influencing and could be of benefit to Northern Australia, and how new techniques and planning concepts could be adopted.

Developing tools to support fire management in Northern Australia for use by fire managers in tropical Savannas and Rangelands is another aspect, hence, the development of the Savanna Monitoring & Evaluation Framework (SMERF).

The RAF will focus on:

Indigenous and remote community based bushfire mitigation practices in the northern Australian region which requires more knowledge sharing and storytelling.
Communicating to the communities, communicating the research, the progress and practices in the northern Australian region also requires specific knowledge and research has demonstrated that with the appropriate communication come the right actions.
Carbon accounting as a business model is now in the forefront as a business tool which may provide useful information for understanding and managing climate change impacts. More and more organisations are expected to make accountability for their greenhouse emissions a standard business requirement.

Presentation topics for the RAF are:

Economics of natural hazards
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering
Northern Australia bushfire and natural hazard training
Cultural hazards: knowledge, practice and risk management with Indigenous communities in south-east Australia
Towards protective action: effective risk and warning communication during natural hazards
Disaster landscape attribution
Precision catchment management
Pre-disaster multi-hazard damage and economic loss estimation model
Scenario planning for remote community risk management in north Australian communities
Developing effective emergency management partnerships in remote north Australian communities

Projects for the RAF are:

These projects provide opportunities to reduce risk and vulnerability and enhance resilience to the natural hazards facing the northern Australian communities and emergency services sector. The RAF is an opportunity to understand how best to collaborate and link together the research projects and communities to meet these challenges.

The Northern Australian RAF has been specifically aligned with the North Australian Fire Managers Forum also taking place in Darwin from 3-4 April.

Attendance at the Northern Australia RAF is by invitation only. Please direct any general enquiries to amy.mulder@bnhcrc.com.au.