A new Black Summer-response research programme

摘要

In July 2020, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre was provided $2 million from the Australian Government to research key issues arising from the 2019/20 bushfires, now remembered as Black Summer. Since then, we have been building a new research programme that best addresses the main issues and opportunities arising from Black Summer, so that we can learn as much as possible from those events and work to improve the safety of Australia in future. Having worked closely with our partners, including emergency and land management agencies, Indigenous groups and researchers across the country, we have developed what we feel is a balanced research programme that focuses on three broad areas - landscape, people and culture.