Australia regularly experiences disasters triggered by natural hazards and New South Wales (NSW) the most populous State is no exception. To date, no publically available spatial and temporal analyses of disaster declarations triggered by hazards (specif
The apocalyptic Australian bushfires have challenged the way we plan settlements. What is the future for small urban settlements within fire-vulnerable forests and bushland? Could they create a new model for rural settlements with wider lessons for development in big cities? This paper draws togethe...
Fitzsimmons said he was "disappointed and frustrated" to learn of the plan through media reports. Some experts also criticized the government for not being well prepared for the bushfires. Rod Keenan, a professor with the University of Melbourne, said bushfire management comprises three planks: pre...
Turns out she had a good run, driving north through Kangaroo Valley and then on to Canberra. I won’t add a map here, but it was a detour that meant a trip that normally took two hours took almost five. A couple of hours later, Kangaroo Valley was on fire and many of the roads ...
prevention had potential to inform community bushfire safety research: Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB; Azjen 1991); Protection Motivation Theory (PMT; Rogers 1983); the Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM; Witte 1992); and the Terror Management Health Model (TMHM; Go...
NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Inspector Ben Shepherd said earlier this week lightning was predominantly responsible for the bushfire crisis. “I can confidently say the majority of the larger fires that we have been dealing with have been a result of fires coming out of remote areas as a resul...
Community bushfire safety: a review of post-Black Saturday research Following the 'Black Saturday' bushfires of 7 February 2009, a number of research reports on community bushfire safety were presented to the Victoria Bushf... J Whittaker,J Handmer - 《Australian Journal of Emergency Management...
The atmospheric impact of forest fire smoke along the east coast of Australia is reasonably well documented. Smoke from large fires in 2013 in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales (NSW) was demonstrated to have had detrimental impacts on air quality as far away as Brisbane, Queensland...
(2) Have changing management approaches impacted the vegetation and fire regime of the area? (3) What was the impact of imposing conservation/wilderness protection ideals on this landscape in the mid-1900s? 1.1. Study Region Southeast Australia is host to high biomass temperate broadleaf ...
south-east Australia; fire; indigenous land management; conservation; wilderness; fuel; cultural burning; British invasion; Anthropocene1. Introduction Society is placing ever-increasing pressures on the Earth system. This has led to the recognition of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, to ...