crime preventionBushfires are the leading cause of death and injuries from natural disasters in Australia, are responsible for hundreds of millions dollars in economic losses every year and seriously affect the country's ecosystems. National data shows that half of these fires are deliberately lit ...
"The thing to keep at top of mind, though, is that bushfire prevention is always a community effort - it's about individuals, organizations, local governments and state government departments working together." Meanwhile, further south in the state of New South Wales (NSW), a prolonged period...
Bushfire: history, prevention and control [Australia]. Bennetton J, Cashin P, Jones D, Soligo J (1997) An economic evaluation of bushfire prevention and suppression, Melbourne - Department of Economics, ... E Foster 被引量: 18发表: 1976年 Using crime prevention to reduce deliberate bushfire...
In a paper published by the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday, researchers from leading Australian universities warned that the government can't wait for the findings of the Bushfire Royal Commission to act on the issue of air pollution. Much of Australia's east coast was blanketed by smo...
Claims that heavy logging, 'thinning' and burning forests, (national parks included) lessens fire risk, are being used in an attempt to increase access to national forest resources. These claims are dangerously misleading and to adopt them as a means of fire prevention would enhance the danger ...
Not surprisingly, Australia is a world leader in fire research and the complex and technologically sophisticated job of fire fighting and prevention. Inside The Inferno takes us into the terrifying heart of major fire events, unfolding the research that explains how fires start, grow and change; ...
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
Crocodile Attacks in Australia: Challenges for Injury Prevention and Trauma Care Results Possibilities for harm minimization before, during and after a crocodile attack are identified, and their merits appriased. The importance of ... RL Gruen - 《World Journal of Surgery》 被引量: 39发表: 2009...
It's summer in a pandemic. So as Australia opens its borders and COVID case numbers rise, we'll likely see the interplay of COVID and bushfires. Our bodies react to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, and bushfires in similar ways. ...
Experts estimate over one billion animals have been killed in Australia's unprecedented bushfires, with more injured and facing starvation due to the destruction of their habitat. "Once the active fire zones clear, that’s when our most challenging work begins," wrote the RSPCA. "Our work ...