Economic damage from 2009’s Black Saturday fires, the costliest in Australia’s history, reached an estimated $4.4 billion. Moody’s Analytics says the cost of the 2019–2020 bushfires is likely to exceed even that figure and will cripple consumer confidence and harm industries such as farming...
While many people effectively stayed and defended their properties or successfully evacuated when threatened, 173 people perished in the Black Saturday bushfires. Whittaker et al. [96] found that many people were not adequately prepared to ‘stay and defend’ while others waited to take action unti...
aIn this paper, we analyse the intersection between six academic theories about ‘catastrophic failure’ and journalistic reportage about disasters. What can these theories tell us about Black Saturday and possible causal and risk factors for the bushfires? How well are these theories understood by ...
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