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Productivity of firefighting resources on large bushfires
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29 Jun 2017
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Productivity of firefighting resources on large bushfires
This project will seek to answer the following questions:
What are the productivity rates of different types of firefighting resource that work on large fires?
How do the productivity rates for large fires compare with existing initial attack productivity rates?
To what degree do environmental factors, such as weather and topography impact resource productivity?
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Key Topics
decision making
prescribed burning
response
More information
Heather Simpson
PhD student
hue13@hotmail.com
Prof Ross Bradstock
Researcher
rossb@uow.edu.au
Dr Owen Price
Researcher
oprice@uow.edu.au
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