TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Christchurch's peri-urban wildfire management strategy: how does it measure up with international best practice? JO - Australasian journal of disaster and trauma studies A1 - Kraberger, S. A1 - Swaffield, S. A1 - McWilliam, W. SP - 63 EP - 73 VL - 22 IS - SI N2 - The 2017 Christchurch Port Hills Fires were an expression of increasing peri-urban wildfire threat in NZ. Internationally, traditional response management of wildfire threat has been complemented by place-based and pre-emptive social and spatial strategies. The formal recovery plans for the Port Hills Fires highlight the emerging role of social programmes but a distinct lack of landscape-scale spatial planning in New Zealand wildfire management practice and research. Spatial dynamics have had a clear impact on the nature of the Port Hills peri-urban wildfire threat, yet the current recovery process largely reinstates the spatial patterns which heightened the risk, scale and impact of the 2017 fires. Keywords: wildfire hazard, wildfire risk, wildfire threat, wildfire management strategies

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