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The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia
Journal of Rural Studies, 2010 This paper examines gender differences in awareness, preparedness and attitudes towards bushfire amongst landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia.
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2010
AbstractThe authors examined the association between disaster‐related traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in 155 youth, aged 8–18 years, from the Lower Eyre Peninsula of South Australia who were affected by January 2005 bushfires.
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AbstractThe authors examined the association between disaster‐related traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in 155 youth, aged 8–18 years, from the Lower Eyre Peninsula of South Australia who were affected by January 2005 bushfires.
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Bushfire and everyday life: Examining the awareness-action ‘gap’ in changing rural landscapes
Geoforum, 2010 In this paper we use the notion of ‘everyday life’ to critically examine an apparent ‘gap’ between bushfire risk awareness and preparedness amongst diverse landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia ...
Christine Eriksen, Nicholas Gill
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A model of metacognition for bushfire fighters
Cognition, Technology & Work, 2016Large-scale bushfires are complex or macrocognitive decision environments (Klein et al.). They involve many people, such as incident management teams, firefighting crews, and resident communities. Those people can also be geographically dispersed.
Lisa M. Frye, Alexander J. Wearing
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The Meteorology of the Tathra Bushfire
Weather and Forecasting, 2022Abstract The meteorological conditions over the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, are investigated on 18 March 2018, the day of the Tathra bushfire. We present an analysis of the event based on high-resolution (100- and 400-m grid-length) simulations with the Bureau of Meteorology’s ACCESS numerical weather prediction system and available ...
David J. Wilke +2 more
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New Scientist, 2019
As fires continue to burn in Australia, an analysis predicts that linked global carbon emissions have risen further.
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As fires continue to burn in Australia, an analysis predicts that linked global carbon emissions have risen further.
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2023
Mainstream scientific and critical accounts of climate crisis, including those describing the Pyrocene and the Anthropocene, typically fail to consider reproduction and kin, even when ‘overpopulation’ is understood as an important factor in the unfolding emergency. Feminist analysis of these debates also tends to remain rather abstract in its attention
Celia Roberts +3 more
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Mainstream scientific and critical accounts of climate crisis, including those describing the Pyrocene and the Anthropocene, typically fail to consider reproduction and kin, even when ‘overpopulation’ is understood as an important factor in the unfolding emergency. Feminist analysis of these debates also tends to remain rather abstract in its attention
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Bushfire Disaster Burn Casualty Management
Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2011Mass burn disasters are among the most difficult disasters to manage, with major burns requiring complex management in a multidisciplinary setting and specialist burns services having limited capacity to deal with large numbers of complex patients. There is a paucity of literature addressing health system responses to mass burn disasters resulting from
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Bushfires in Australia—A Historical Perspective
Medicine, Science and the Law, 1984Australia, like North America, has the natural potential for large bushfires and these were a regular feature of the Australian scene long before European settlement began in 1788. The early nineteenth century saw the introduction of regulations restricting the lighting and use of fires during the bushfire season.
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The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria
Medical Journal of Australia, 1984The Ash Wednesday bushfires were one of the worst natural disasters in Australia's history. This paper documents observations of human reactions to the disaster started immediately after the bushfires. Two frameworks were used for classification of observations: biopsychosocial and temporal.
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