This paper examines the extent to which bushfire planning legislation and regulations in South East Queensland provide for the reduction of risk for development in bushfire-prone peri-urban areas by exploring their 'on the ground' implementation. The paper uses case studies from the Gold Coast City...
Fig. 4 shows the two-year deficit in rainfall across Australia, with most of the forested area along the east coast from southern Queensland to eastern Victoria experiencing its driest ever 2-year period21. The southwestern region of Australia has been drying for 40 years, linked to climate ...
This chapter explores the social construction of risk in two peri-urban bushfire-prone communities in Queensland, Australia. These case studies were undert... A Cottrell,S Bushnell,M Spillman,... - Community perceptions of bushfire risk. 被引量: 18发表: 2008年 Subdivision Policy and Planning ...
Spring has barely arrived, and bushfires are burningacross Australia's eastern seaboard. More than 50 fires are currently burning in New South Wales, and some 15,000 hectares have burned in Queensland since late last week. It's the first time Australia has seen such strong fires this early ...
Tweets with the hashtag #ArsonEmergency are coming from a "much higher" proportion of bot-like or troll-like accounts than those with more general bushfire-related hashtags such as #BushfireAustralia or #AustraliaFire, according to initial analysis by Dr Timothy Graham from the Queensland Unive...
Bowman said that there is now a very unusual ash storm phenomenon that happened in southeast Queensland, where a "blizzard" of millions of burning particles, which can travel very far, poses a major threat to residential buildings. During summer, the huge amount of heat mass generated by deser...
Fires have burned from southern Queensland through New South Wales and into Gippsland in Victoria. Fires are also burning in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and the Stirling Range in Western Australia. In all, more than 6 million hectares, the size of some small countries, have been burn...
AITPM’s thoughts are with all of those members, family and friends who may be experiencing hardship as a result of the Victorian bushfires and North Queensland floods. AITPM is a not for profit organisation however the National ... JM Bunker 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 AITPM Email Newsletter...
Bushfires have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings in rural and urban interface areas within NSW for the last decade. These devastating bushfires ha... DOUGLAS,GRAHAME,MIDGLEY,... - 《Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland》 被引量: 5发表: 2009年 Fire authorities and planners ...
Individual resilience in rural people: a Queensland study, Australia. community, with an emphasis on identifying and then using existing individual, group and community resilience as exemplars for those who are less resilient... DG Hegney,E Buikstra,P Baker,... - 《Rural & Remote Health》 被...