New online resource curates the best & latest research from the Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC

by Bushfire & Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre 21 January 2021

For the last eight years, the main priority of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC has been to provide useful, high quality, needs-based research through partnerships with universities, emergency service agencies, international research organisations, government departments and non-government groups. The aim is to drive changes in the way Australia prepares for, manages and responds to natural hazards.

The CRC has created Driving Change – an online resource that collects and curates the best and latest research from across the eight years of the CRC’s research program. Driving Change highlights the CRC’s partnerships by collecting and presenting all research into 10 themes according to how the research is now being used by emergency services, government and the community.

The 10 themes are disaster resilience; economics, mitigation and value; education and communications; extreme weather; fire predictive services; future workforce; Indigenous initiatives; infrastructure and impact; managing the landscape; and policy, political engagement and influence.

Each Driving Change theme page is a presentation of the key findings and achievements of CRC research. From those theme pages, visitors to the site are given curated access to online tools, inspiring case studies of research in action and a selection of the best news, resources and publications, culminating in a collection of all relevant research projects relating to that theme. Click here to read the full article