Skip to main content
site-logo

Search form

  • Home
  • Research
      1. Overview and Core Research
      2. Student Projects
      3. Commissioned research
      4. Tactical Research Fund
      5. Quick Response Fund
      6. Using our research
  • Driving Change
      1. Driving Change
      2. Online Tools & Resources
      3. Case Studies
  • Education
      1. Students and opportunities
      2. Student impacts and outcomes
      3. Student publications
      4. Student videos
      5. Student resources
  • Publications
      1. Peer-reviewed Works
      2. Published works
  • News
      1. Latest news
      2. Blog posts
      3. Hazard News
      4. Hazard Notes
      5. Hazard Channel
      6. Fire Australia
  • Events
      1. All Events
      2. AFAC Annual Conferences
      3. Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conferences
      4. North Australia Fire Managers Forum
      5. Research Advisory Forums
        1. Research Advisory Forum - Northern Australia
          • Research Advisory Forum - Bushfire Mitigation
          • Research Advisory Forum - Workforce and Volunteerism
        2. Research Advisory Forum - predictive services
  • About us
      1. Introduction
      2. Board and staff
      3. Participating organisations
      4. End-users
      5. Researchers and students
      6. Corporate Documents
      7. Opportunities
      8. Contact us

Research Advisory Forum - northern Australia

Event

02 Apr 2019

raf2019darwin_2.jpg

Dr Veronique Florec, Darwin 2019 Research Advisory Forum.
Dr Veronique Florec, Darwin 2019 Research Advisory Forum.

The Northern Australia Research Advisory Forum (RAF) held in Darwin was 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 explored and workshoped these above themes. The diverse program brought 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 had a 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 were:

  • 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 were:

  • Northern Australian bushfire and natural hazard training
  • Enhancing remote north Australian community resilience
  • Savanna fire management and scenario planning for North Australia
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 was an opportunity to understand how best to collaborate and link together the research projects and communities to meet these challenges. 

The Northern Australian RAF was specifically aligned with the North Australian Fire Managers Forum that also took place in Darwin from 3-4 April.

Venue

Charles Darwin University, Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina
Darwin NT 0810
Australia
PDF icon Download RAF - Northern Australia agenda.pdf (115.86 KB)
Launch in Google Maps
PDF icon Download now (115.86 KB)

Event Type

Workshop

Upcoming Events

How to use economics in natural hazards management
How to use economics in natural...
Workshop, Webinar
04 Mar 2021

Related

  • News & media
  • Publications
15 May 2019
New online - May 2019
More CRC-based research has been published and is available on the website....
The Darwin Research Advisory Forum at Charles Darwin University, with Core Research Program Manager Desiree Beekharry.
12 Apr 2019
Fire science across the North
The first of the new-look Research Advisory Forums attracted 55 participants to...
Year Type Citation
2019 Journal Article Sangha, K., Edwards, A. C. & Russell-Smith, J. Long-term solutions to improve emergency management services in remote communities in northern Australia. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 32, (2019).
  • Google Scholar
  • BibTeX
  • EndNote XML
Hazard News
Hazard Notes
Hazard Channel
Fire Australia

In the media

28 Feb
ABC Weather
Bushfires in south-west WA impacted by global trend of drying Mediterranean climates
25 Feb
ABC Weather
BOM forecasts wet autumn for some as La Niña weather system declines
25 Feb
CFA News
Autumn outlook predicts reduced bushfire risk
25 Feb
The Conversation
Indigenous expertise is reducing bushfires in northern Australia. It’s time to consider similar approaches for other disasters
25 Feb
UNE News
Enduring role for UNE disaster research
25 Feb
Emergency Management Victoria
on the newly released Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: March – May 2021
25 Feb
Willy Weather
BOM forecasts wet autumn for some as La Niña weather system declines
25 Feb
Insurance News
Fire potential remains despite La Nina rains
25 Feb
The Advertiser
CFS bushfire regulations to change from March 1 including the use of hot tools
03 Feb
The Age
Storms, tornadoes and explosions: Bushfires are getting stranger. How?
03 Feb
The Sydney Morning Herald
Storms, tornadoes and explosions: Bushfires are getting stranger. How?
02 Feb
Tweed Daily News
Shocking reasons why people drive into floodwater
02 Feb
The Northern Star
The real reasons why people drive into floodwater
02 Feb
New York Times
First Came the Lockdown. Then Came the Wildfire.
23 Jan
The Canberra Times
How to spot the dangers of heatwaves

Tweets

Tweets by bnhcrc

Landgate FireWatch

Landgate FireWatch Hotspots
footer-logo

Search form

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the traditional custodians across all the lands on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to Elders both past and present.

Copyright

  • Accessibility Statement
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact Us
  • ABN: 211 631 379 79

  • © Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC