Citation

Kraberger S, Swaffield S, McWilliam W. Australas. J. Disaster Trauma Stud. 2018; 22(SI): 63-73.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Massey University, School of Psychology)

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Abstract

The 2017 Christchurch Port Hills Fires were an expression of increasing peri-urban wildfire threat in NZ. Internationally, traditional response management of wildfire threat has been complemented by place-based and pre-emptive social and spatial strategies. The formal recovery plans for the Port Hills Fires highlight the emerging role of social programmes but a distinct lack of landscape-scale spatial planning in New Zealand wildfire management practice and research. Spatial dynamics have had a clear impact on the nature of the Port Hills peri-urban wildfire threat, yet the current recovery process largely reinstates the spatial patterns which heightened the risk, scale and impact of the 2017 fires.

Keywords: wildfire hazard, wildfire risk, wildfire threat,
wildfire management strategies

Language: en