Town and city bushfire protection case studies – prescribed burning and other adaptive management and mitigation have assisted in restricting bushfire impacts on communities across Australia and the US.
There have been many bushfires that have had major impacts on towns and cities, indeed many that were bushfire disasters.
However, there have been many cases where prescribed burning, mechanical treatments/ thinning, active management options and grazing have resulted in reduced impacts on towns and cities or in some cases stopped bushfires completely.
This is an especially good outcome considering the mostly small areas and scattered locations of bushfire mitigation often used across Australia, including prescribed burning, mechanical treatment and grazing, in most Australian states.
The full review is included here.
A number of these bushfire case studies are outlined within Section 2 (of the review) in Australia, covering 25 case studies. The author appreciates the fact that a number of these case studies were written up, in some cases a number of case studies together.
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