Planned burns thus need active programmes of public communication and air quality monitoring to ensure that the overall public health benefits of the intervention can be achieved with the minimum possible adverse impacts on higher risk individuals....
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“A data collation and investigation plan has been developed to review the cause and impacts of the more than 1700 bushfires already reported to police; andconsider the 12,000 fires recorded by the Rural Fire Service since August 2019,” police said in a statement released on Friday. ...
Widespread devastation Air pollution from bushfires is known to increase the likelihood of death in humans and it especially affects people with pre-existing respiratory and cardiovascular problems. Its impacts onmental healthare not so well understood. ...
Bushfire hazard reduction is not as simple as dropping a match indiscriminately and standing back to watch the landscape burn. Fire agencies must assess the risks and manage the potential impacts. These assessments are made in the years and months prior to the burn, as well as on the day. F...
Bushfires (landscape fires) are a key Earth system process that affects humans and our societies and economies. In a recent article, the authors explored the coupling of humans to landscape fire through the lens of human health impacts of bushfire smoke. They noted that such an approach ...
Bushfire and their impacts can be as diverse as the environments in which they occur. Commensurate with this, there exists a diversity of ecosystem and organism responses to a single fire event and to the cumulative effects of fire and inter-fire periods over time. Some ecosystems and organis...
While timber harvesting compounds the impacts of bushfires on Leadbeater's possum habitat, across the landscape the effect is small in comparison. Timber harvesting reduced suitable habitat by only 1.4% to 2.3% over 250 years compared to scenarios without harvesting. ...
With climate change increasing bushfire impacts and intensities, we need to build capacity inlocal communitiesto manage fire hazard. This requires education, training and adapting policies and landscape management practices to devise plans that suit local conditions. ...