❓ The WA State Government is investing $100,000 per annum into research on fire behaviour in coastal shrublands, conducted by DEC scientists, with a provisional prediction system expected by June 2015.
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(1) How much money is being invested by the State Government into research of the behaviour of fires in coastal heath?
(2) If such research is being funded, who is conducting the research?
(3) When is the research expected to be finalised?
(2) If such research is being funded, who is conducting the research?
(3) When is the research expected to be finalised?
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Answered
6 November 2012
Responded by
Minister for Environment
Response time
41 days
(1) DEC's Science Division has been allocated $100,000 per annum to undertake research into fire behaviour and fuel dynamics in coastal shrublands, commencing in 2012/13 and continuing in each of the subsequent two years, subject to review of progress.
(2) Research will be conducted by a DEC scientist with the funding described in (1) and with input from two experienced fire scientists within DEC's Science Division. DEC will also pursue related opportunities that may arise from its ongoing collaboration with the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre.
(3) The science concept plan prepared for this project indicates that a provisional fire behaviour prediction system for coastal shrublands will be available for operational validation by June 2015.
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(2) Research will be conducted by a DEC scientist with the funding described in (1) and with input from two experienced fire scientists within DEC's Science Division. DEC will also pursue related opportunities that may arise from its ongoing collaboration with the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre.
(3) The science concept plan prepared for this project indicates that a provisional fire behaviour prediction system for coastal shrublands will be available for operational validation by June 2015.
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