The article features the booklet "A Guide to Building in Victoria After the Bushfires," produced by the Victoria Building Commission, which provides advice to consumers on the Australian Building Standard for Design and Construction of Buildings in Bushfire-prone Areas. The standard provides a ...
The impact of smoke on respiratory hospital outcomes during the 2002–2003 bushfire season, Victoria, Australia BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Uncontrolled bushfires produce copious amounts of smoke that can result in adverse effects on human health and so are important c... R Tham,B Erbas,M Akram,...
ES Victoria 被引量: 1发表: 2012年 Fault current compensations in resonant grounded distribution systems to mitigate powerline bushfires using a nonsingular terminal sliding model controller A fault current compensation technique is proposed in this paper for resonant grounded power distribution systems in...
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 ...
Planning to Reduce Risk: The Wildfire Management Overlay in Victoria, Australia In a world where climate change is a 'given', the concepts of vulnerability, resilience and risk are now pivotal in public policy debates in many countries... R Hughes,D Mercer - 《Geographical Research》 被引量:...
A state of emergency was declared for six areas in Victoria, and New South Wales declared a third 7-day state of emergency, added AIR. Australia experienced the hottest and driest year on record in 2019, affirmed AIR, quoting the Australia Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). “Extreme heat and ex...
Australia has a long history of bushfire disasters. The loss of almost 70 homes in Tathra, New South Wales, and 18 homes in southwest Victoria this week has again reminded us of the risks and huge personal costs of living in a fire-prone country. The risk is increasing as fires the ...
Our new studymodelled changes in forests over the next 250 years, focusing on 280,000 hectares of Victoria's Central Highlands, home to the majority of remaining Leadbeater's possums. We looked at different scenarios of how bothclimate changeandtimberharvesting might play out. And we identified...
Advice and information to assist people and communities affected by the February bushfires to start the rebuild under the new Australian Building Standard for Design and Construction of Buildings in Bus...
The research examines the effectiveness of current policy to provide adequate access and suppression opportunities for firefighters in peri-urban areas, with particular reference to Victoria. Subdivision policies applicable to development in bushfire-prone areas throughout Australia and the United States are...