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Models and frameworks for assessing the value of disaster research
Progress in Disaster Science, 2020 Funders, governments, stakeholders and end-users expect to see tangible evidence that an investment in research is a worthy use of resources. Research has impact if it makes a demonstrable contribution to the economy, society, culture, public policy ...
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Nature Communications, 2022 Rising forest flammability could become a major public health issue and amplify climate change via feedbacks on the carbon cycle. Here the authors identify daily fuel moisture thresholds associated with increased fire risk in earth’s forests.
Hamish Clarke +6 more
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An archetypal perspective on householders who ‘wait and see’ during a bushfire
Progress in Disaster Science, 2020 The literature commonly considers householders confronted by a bushfire event who ‘wait and see’ before taking protective action as engaging in decisional delay.
Ken Strahan
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APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE CATEGORIES OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) IN DIFFERENT AIRSPACES FOR BUSHFIRE MONITORING AND RESPONSE [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015 Demand and interest in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for civilian applications, and advances in technology such as development of sense-and-avoid systems, will soon allow UAS to be flown alongside manned aircrafts in non-segregated airspace.
N. Homainejad, C. Rizos
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Savanna fire simulations using cellular automata:
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 Â Modelling and computer simulations have been used to manage and fight wildfires for many years. The primary goal of these numerical models is to predict fire spread and behaviour under various scenarios - i.e. weather, vegetation and topography. The
Patrice Weber, Rohan Fisher
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The extent and severity of bushfires in a landscape are largely governed by meteorological conditions. An accurate understanding of the interactions of meteorological variables and fire behaviour in the landscape is very complex, yet possible.
Saroj Kumar Sharma +2 more
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'You know you're going to get through this': Volunteers and long-term disaster recovery. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract As nature‐induced disasters intensify and reliance on volunteer support grows, volunteers are now increasingly critical to disaster response and recovery, particularly in countries like Australia. This paper advances our empirical understanding of volunteer contributions to long‐term disaster recovery.
Sharma N, Kuskoff E, Parsell C.
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Buildings, 2021 The 2019–2020 bushfire season is estimated to be one of the worst fire seasons on record in Australia, especially in New South Wales (NSW). The devastating fire season ignited a heated public debate on whether prescribed burning is an effective tool for ...
Michael Visner +2 more
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Simulations of the Waroona fire using the coupled atmosphere–fire model ACCESS-Fire [PDF]
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 2022 The Waroona fire burned 69000ha south of Perth in January 2016. There were two fatalities and 170 homes were lost. Two evening ember storms were reported and pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud developed on consecutive days.
Jeffrey D. Kepert +3 more
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Interpersonal violence and mental health outcomes following disaster
BJPsych Open, 2020 BackgroundDisasters pose a documented risk to mental health, with a range of peri- and post-disaster factors (both pre-existing and disaster-precipitated) linked to adverse outcomes.
Robyn Molyneaux +11 more
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