Zou Zhichong, Leng Hong

Keywords： Australian Bushfires; Natural Disasters Risk; Disaster Risk Vulnerability; Fire Abatement Zone

Abstract：

Natural disasters originally belong to the ecosystem, which usually bring losses due to their inevitable conflicts with urban systems. Adaptive urban planning is based on essential understanding of disaster principles. Adaptive plans can reduce disasters risk and protect lives, properties and livelihoods by avoiding or diminishing the conflicts between natural disasters and urban systems. Australian bushfires are unique in their special characteristics of occurrence, propagation and interactivities with human systems. Relative researches on bushfires and related disciplines provide a necessary theoretical foundation for Australian bushfire adaptive urban planning studies. This paper introduces the state-of-the-art of researches on Australian bushfire laws, urban bushfire risk, and community bushfire vulnerability. The present Australian Capital Territory Bushfire Adaptive plans and the settings of bushfire prone zones, fire management zones and bushfire abatement zones in specific spatial plans are briefly introduced. Multidisciplinary development of Australian bushfire science benefits its adaptive urban planning to bushfires, which is significantly a positive learning example to promote urban planning in China.

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