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Bushfire sustainability : Strategies for reconciling bushfire and biodiversity with daily life [PDF]
, 2010 This exhibition and catalogue provides a visual record of student work exhibited at the Australian Institute of Architects offices in Brisbane from November 15 to 29, 2010.
Weir, Ian
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, 2021 Research Background The Fire Memories research project, funded by the State and Commonwealth governments, aims to build community resilience to disasters by gathering and sharing first-hand experiences of the community responses to the 2019-2020 ...
Vada, Sera +4 more
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Scaling turbulence drives the general circulation
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.The NOAA Gulfstream SP4, which deployed the GPS dropsondes over the NE Pacific Ocean as part of the Winter Storms Project during the January–March periods of 2004, 2005 and 2006. Abstract Statistical multifractal analysis of airborne and dropsonde observations is used to show that persistence of velocity after molecular collisions breaks the continuous
Adrian F. Tuck
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High Voltage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tree‐contact single‐phase‐to‐ground fault (TSF) is a common and hazardous type of failure in distribution networks. TSF is likely to occur when overhead conductors contact moist tree branches, potentially leading to insulation breakdown, posing serious threats to grid safety.
Wenjun Ning +5 more
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Integrated design for bushfire resilient housing [PDF]
, 2015 This 40 minute presentation - at the national Bushfire Building Conference articulates a novel strategy for designing cost affordable housing in bushfire prone areas.
Weir, Ian James
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract COVID‐19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro‐level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal‐type framework for the micro‐flow of crisis learning, an ordinarily epistemic and context‐specific process of individual‐level interactions, where lessons
Neil Mortimer, Nicholas Bromfield
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Societies, 2023 This research presents a new model based on Twitter posts and VADER algorithms to analyze social media discourse during and following a bushfire event.
Sarah Gardiner +4 more
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Australian government organisations are pivotal in helping to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals. Yet while these organisations promote sustainability in their strategic plans, they struggle to embed these same commitments into their own infrastructure and construction projects. This study examines this persistent disconnect
Richard Hughes, Kerry Brown
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, 2023 Disasters cost the world $US268bn in 2020 in economic, property and human losses. In Queensland, the most disaster-prone of Australian states, flood, cyclone and bushfire will cost $466bn over the next 40 years. Individual preparation for natural hazards
Anderson, Esther +4 more
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article asks why the successful coupling of the problem, policy, and political streams during the COVID‐19 reform of Australia's JobSeeker Payment failed to produce durable institutional change. It adopts a longitudinal single‐case design covering 2014–2025 and applies the Multiple Streams Framework to trace the movement of the three ...
Yutong Chen
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