Furthermore, the research identifies three key messages in bushfire warnings that are not personally meaningful for many people because they do not align with how they are likely to respond to a bushfire. These include: (1) people should leave bushfire risk areas on days of Catastrophic fire ...
A firefighter hoses down trees and flying embers in an effort to secure nearby houses from bushfires near the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales, Dec. 31, 2019.Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images Many people headed to beaches, even standing in...
You can learn about the increase in bushfires and how we can respond to them on our Bushfires: Response, Relief and Resilience course. The need for net zero At the 2015 COP conference in Paris, global leaders committed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Since then, the idea of net zer...
I suppose because I don’t want some bozo journalists telling me “everything I need to know”. How dotheyknow what I need to know? Maybe I need to know more! Why not just say “Briefing on China’s Virus Outbreak”. (I have no objection to briefing, my objection is the hectoring,...
We conclude that the greatest (and clearest) threat is to the Arctic with summer sea-ice loss likely to occur long before (and potentially contribute to) GIS [Greenland ice sheet] melt. The reason these mistakes are so significant is that, despite the flawed assumptions ...
We’ve gobbled up more of our planet’s resources in the past fifty years than in all previous human history combined and polluted our way to prosperity in the process. Climate change had nothing to do with any of that – and still doesn’t. Economic growth needs...
parent separation, having a parent incarcerated or with a mental illness, or due to grief from the loss of a loved one. Trauma can occur because of conflict or war, or due to a natural disaster, such as the recent bushfires.
Yvonne De JongThomas Butynski
Bushfires account for 40% of fatalities associated with declared disasters in Australia. A significant proportion of these fatalities occur closer to forested areas because over 90% of the recorded locations for the deaths were within 100 metres of bushland areas. Despite this, there has ...
The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission. Vol. IV: The statements of lay witnesses: Commissioners' introduction. Retrieved from http://vol4.royalcommission.vic.gov.au/ intro.htmlVictorian Bushfires Royal Commission (2010d). The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission. Vol IV: The ...