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 ...
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 Univ...
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 It's not a 'thing' but a...
A new methodology for State-wide mapping of bushfire prone areas in Queensland 1 Introduction ...12 Methodology... J Leonard,K Opie,G
Spring has barely arrived, and bushfires are burning across 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.
500 homes have been destroyed in hundreds of bushfires occurring across a vast area of the country. Most damage is reported in New South Wales – Australia’s most populous state – and Victoria, with additional losses occurring in South Australia, and Queensland. Bushfires are also active in...
In Queensland, the most disaster-prone of Australian states, flood, cyclone and bushfire will cost $466bn over the next 40 years. Individual preparation for natural hazards has been shown to reduce this cost by reducing adverse experiences, physical health problems and post-traumatic stress, and ...
level, low ambient side surface temperatures, and low crack intensity after bushfire and building fire exposure, the C-PE 60 block is recommended as the most suitable expanded perlite masonry unit for use in the external walls of bushfire shelters and other buildings in bushfire-prone areas. ...
level, low ambient side surface temperatures, and low crack intensity after bushfire and building fire exposure, the C-PE 60 block is recommended as the most suitable expanded perlite masonry unit for use in the external walls of bushfire shelters and other buildings in bushfire-prone areas. ...