Bushfire Management

Topic: Bush-fire Management. Details and Requirements: 2,000 – 2,500 words (you must land somewhere in between these goal posts) Formal piece of academic writing using appropriate headings and referencing Minimum of 15 references Author-date referencing system (APA or Harvard) Microsoft Word No Plagiarism The focus of the case study is on the governance challenges that arise in dealing with your chosen sustainability issue. You will need to look at: The history of the issue: how has this issue been handled (governed) previously The key actors (stakeholders) involved: what interests do they have, what is their position on the issue, what access to power do they have? The key governance challenges involved in dealing with the issue: Conflicts of value Contested knowledge Competing interests Institutional barriers Recommendations for how to overcome the governance challenges to deal with the sustainability issue: use concepts and theories of environmental governance to justify your approach e.g. ecological modernization, deep green, sustainable development, neoliberal environmentalism, etc. Due Date 22/10/2015