Student researcher

Martyn Eliott Research Leader

The overall goal of my current research is to economically evaluate prescribed fire as a bushfire risk mitigation tool for southeast Queensland. To achieve this, I will: review bushfire and prescribed fire policies property rights and responsibilities; develop a prescribed fire cost model; design prescribed fire scenarios; simulate the effect of prescribed fire on bushfire burn probabilities with Phoenix-SABRE (with the assistance of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services); estimate the value of selected market and non-market resources at risk from bushfire; estimate the fire effects (positive or negative) of bushfire and prescribed fire on the selected resources; estimate the expected value of avoided bushfire losses due to prescribed fire (burn probabilities x fire effects x market and non-market values); and evaluate alternative prescribed fire scenarios by comparing the costs of the programs against their associated benefits in terms of expected avoided resource losses.

Year Type Citation
2019 Journal Article Eliott, M., Lewis, T., Venn, T. & Srivastava, S. Kumar. Planned and unplanned fire regimes on public land in south-east Queensland. International Journal of Wildland Fire (2019). doi:https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18213