The project will be assessing the relationship that people have with natural hazards in their region by conducting a range of risk perception surveys

People respond to bushfires in different and complex ways according to their circumstances and characteristics. A range of factors influence decision-making including prior intention and planning, threat perception, self-reliance, previous experience of bushfire, perceptions of the best protective action and perceptions of other stakeholders including neighbours and emergency services. Seven bushfire self-evacuation archetypes displaying universally recognisable, fundamentally human characteristics have been reported by Strahan (2018).