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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023 Background When COVID-19 spread to Australia in January 2020, many communities were already in a state of emergency from the Black Summer bushfires. Studies of adolescent mental health have typically focused on the effects of COVID-19 in isolation.
Joanne R. Beames +8 more
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Air pollution and health outcomes: Evidence from Black Saturday Bushfires in Australia
, 2022 This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of air pollution on Australian health outcomes, using the Black Saturday bushfires (BSB) in 2009 as a natural experiment.
Bandara, Jayatilleke S +2 more
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A Framework for Burnt Area Mapping and Evacuation Problem Using Aerial Imagery Analysis
Fire, 2022 The study aims to develop a holistic framework for maximum area coverage of a disaster region during a bushfire event. The monitoring and detection of bushfires are essential to assess the extent of damage, its direction of spread, and action to be taken
Hafiz Suliman Munawar +3 more
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Multi-Scale Bushfire Detection From Multi-Modal Streams of Remote Sensing Data
IEEE Access, 2020 Bushfire is a destructive force that would change the course of a country and even the Earth. They are causing casualties and affect the quality of life of millions of people.
Thanh Cong Phan +4 more
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Methods and Protocols, 2022 Introduction: Exposure to natural hazards such as fire, drought, floods, and earthquakes can have negative impacts on physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Shelly Makleff +4 more
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Sensors, 2019 Bushfires are becoming more frequent and intensive due to changing climate. Those that occur close to vineyards can cause smoke contamination of grapevines and grapes, which can affect wines, producing smoke-taint.
Sigfredo Fuentes +6 more
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Techno‐Economic Assessment of Biomethane and Biohydrogen Production From Victorian Wheat Straw
Carbon Energy, EarlyView.Techno‐economic assessment of biomethane and biohydrogen production from Victorian wheat straw. Off‐grid renewable photovoltaic energy with a price down to 0.95 ¢/kWh was applied. Both approaches can make positive profits and negative carbon footprints.
Shuanglong Tan +7 more
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Positive Indian Ocean Dipole events precondition southeast Australia bushfires
, 2009 [1] The devastating “Black Saturday” bushfire inferno in the southeast Australian state of Victoria in early February 2009 and the “Ash Wednesday” bushfires in February 1983 were both preceded by a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) event.
Cai, W., Raupach, M., Cowan, T.
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Animals, 2023 Many koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) required rehabilitation after the 2019/20 Australian megafires. Little is known about how the post-release health of rehabilitated koalas compares to non-rescued resident koalas.
Murraya R. Lane +9 more
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Study of Damage to Shutters Exposed to a Vegetation Fire: Definition of Vulnerability Thresholds
Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the fire behavior of wooden, PVC, and aluminum shutters through laboratory and large‐scale experiments. Laboratory tests were conducted using a cone calorimeter to assess the ignitability of the PVC and wooden shutters, focusing on the critical heat flux of ignition, ignition time and critical Flux Time Product (FTP ...
C. Luciani +5 more
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