- Title:
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Bushfire Safety for People with Special Needs
- Date:
- January 2010
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
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Co-authors include Dr Helen Goodman, a Bushfire CRC Research Fellow at RMIT’s School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning; independant social researcher Dr Helen Rosenbaum, and; Alan Rhodes, Manager, Research and Evaluation, Community Safety, Country Fire Authority (Victoria).
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Location:
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Australia,
Australia
Overview
The goal of this study was to learn about how households with special needs prepared for and met the challenge of a fire event, what special difficulties they faced in doing so, and how community education programs could improve the preparedness of these households in the case of a fire.