Incorporating Together, The project will values in researchers improve the bushfire risk and DELWP capacity of decision staff DELWP staff to making: identified incorporate further opportunities, values of the development tools and Victorian public in of tools and strategies to bushfire risk strategies incorporate decision making knowledge of by: values of the Providing new Victorian tools and public into strategies for bushfire incorporating decision values of the making. In Victorian this project public in the bushfire risk researchers decision will work with making DELWP staff on three case Enhancing studies that staff skills in will allow planning, early designing and development evaluating the and tools and evaluation of strategies a small developed, selection of and tools and strategies for Systematically use in capturing professional learning of practice by DELWP staff DELWP. through development of tools and strategies in ways that will inform future learning. Completion date: August 2019 modelling The and Chemical Transport Model, developed by CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and other partners through previous DELWP research investments has enabled DELWP and emergency sector partners to better manage smoke impact on communities and industries. Building on this work, two new innovative and contemporary research projects will work on strategies to validate and calibrate the model and improve DELWP’s understanding of the community health impacts and thresholds for smoke. Table 3: Smoke modelling - current projects
Incorporating values in bushfire risk decision making: further development of tools and strategies Together, researchers and DELWP staff identified opportunities, tools and strategies to incorporate knowledge of values of the Victorian public into bushfire decision making. In this project the researchers will work with DELWP staff on three case studies that will allow early development and evaluation of a small selection of tools and strategies for use in professional practice by DELWP. The project will improve the capacity of DELWP staff to incorporate values of the Victorian public in bushfire risk decision making by: Providing new tools and strategies for incorporating values of the Victorian public in bushfire risk decision making Enhancing staff skills in planning, designing and evaluating the tools and strategies developed, and Systematically capturing learning of DELWP staff through development of tools and strategies in ways that will inform future learning. Completion date: August 2019 modelling The and Chemical Transport Model, developed by CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and other partners through previous DELWP research investments has enabled DELWP and emergency sector partners to better manage smoke impact on communities and industries. Building on this work, two new innovative and contemporary research projects will work on strategies to validate and calibrate the model and improve DELWP’s understanding of the community health impacts and thresholds for smoke. Table 3: Smoke modelling - current projects
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