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Bushfire Interface Science (EVSC90024)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
Email:
justin.leonard@unimelb.edu.au
Enquiries:
Current Student: http://ask.unimelb.edu.au/
Web: http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/
Overview
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This subject adopts an evidence-based approach to understanding house loss in bushfires. This knowledge is the basis for the delivery of alternative solutions and performance-based building and planning solutions for bushfire risk mitigation.
Bushfire Interface Science requires some critical background knowledge in order to be effectively delivered, the key pre-requisites are the successful completion of the building planning stream of the Postgraduate Certificate in Bushfire Planning and Management.
Note: This subject includes a pre-teaching period. During the pre-teaching period students are expected to complete the course readings, review the lectures and any other course preparation as outlined on the LMS. The LMS will become available at the commencement of the pre-teaching dates. Pre teaching starts on 27/06/2015
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of the subject students should:
- Have an understanding of how to quantify fire weather and its influence on both fire arrival severity and urban interface vulnerability;
- Fire progression & behaviour (advanced understanding);
- Have an understanding of how to quantify fire progression and behaviour as it transitions from continuous fuels into the urban interface;
- Have an understanding of how to quantify the various mechanisms implicit in a bushfire event and also recognise synergistic influences they have in the built form;
- Have a firm grounding in the historic evidence of building loss and the urban design and building system contexts that influenced these losses;
- Have an understanding of human behaviour in a fire environment and understand the process of decision-making, occupant response and the physiological and psychological effects of fire;
- Be able to consider the above fundamentals within a risk-based framework;
- Be introduced to the approaches taken in advanced risk mapping and in various settlement patterns.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Literature review (1500 words) due prior to commencement of intensive (30%);
- Assignment on quantification techniques for interface exposure (1500 words) due at completion of intensive (30%);
- Major written assignment on risk assessment (2000) due 3 weeks after completion of intensive (40%).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinator Justin Leonard Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours lectures + 36 hours practicals Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 26 June 2017 Teaching period 10 July 2017 to 15 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 28 June 2017 Census date 10 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 11 August 2017 Assessment period ends 1 September 2017 July contact information
Email:
justin.leonard@unimelb.edu.au
Enquiries:
Current Student: http://ask.unimelb.edu.au/
Web: http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Forest Ecosystem Science Course Graduate Diploma in Bushfire Planning and Management - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022