Published works

The Annual Project Report 2014–2015, marks the halfway point of the project Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at the institutional scale. In recent months, the project has gathered significant momentum and we look forward to a very busy year ahead.

A major decision for the project and a key deliverable was to decide on the most suitable platform to host the economic geography and values at risk maps. This was achieved through a collaboration with the Centre for eResearch Data and Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University, Ballarat. This collaboration will continue to develop the map

Two key reports for the project were produced:

1. A report on the current state of risk ownership of strategic risk management of natural hazards in Australia, led by Celeste Young. This report was originally intended to be a brief desktop study but became a major report presenting a framework for assessing risk ownership and an analysis of publicly available documents.
2. A report developing a framework for the whole project that combines risk management and the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework building on earlier work[1]. This will be released through the BNHCRC as a working paper and later converted into journal papers.

Regular meetings have been held and assisted through ongoing contact with individual end users, has informed our research enormously. Discussions and exchange of materials within the economic research cluster has led to plans to undertake common case studies, exchange ideas and work towards building compatible frameworks.

Additionally, we have undertaken a number of outreach activities including presentations to meetings and conferences, detailed in this report.

Planning is now underway for a series of four stakeholder workshops to take place in August. These will apply a small number of scenarios to the draft values at risk maps to further explore issues around values and risk ownership. The results will influence the further development of the economy geography and contribute to the assessment of risk ownership and governance at the institutional scale.