Planning for Extreme Wildfire Policy Brief
Annet Forkink (GNS Science), Xuemei Tang (GNS Science), Lisa Langer (Scion), Andrea Grant (Scion), Simon Wegner (Scion), Bryann Avendano (University of Canterbury), Sarah McCaffrey (formerly US Forest Service), Ruggiero Lovreglio (Massey University).
This brief offers an overview of the legislative and planning frameworks relevant to wildfire management in Aotearoa New Zealand to provide insights into how wildfire is managed and integrated into planning processes. It is written for a range of disciplines involved in residential land development and construction, such as natural hazard risk managers, land-use planners and policy makers.
More detailed information can be found in GNS Science report 2022/21 (Forkink et al. 2023) (PDF, 7 MB).
Image credit: Karen Bayne, Scion.