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The heat is on: climate change, extreme heat and bushfires in WA [PDF]
, 2015 Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of heatwaves in Western Australia and driving up the likelihood of very high fire danger weather.
Lesley Hughes, Will Steffen, Alix Pearce
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forest fires have escalated alarmingly, now consuming more than double the tree cover compared to two decades ago, signaling a growing and urgent environmental crisis. This study addresses the ever increasing global concern of forest fires, focusing on sustainable economic recovery while minimizing the ecological footprint amid mounting ...
Laxita Soontha +2 more
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Be prepared: climate change and the Victorian bushfire threat [PDF]
, 2014 Firefighters, emergency services and communities need to prepare for much greater bushfire risk from climate change, argues this report. Key findings 1.
Lesley Hughes
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Cybergeo, 2007 Bushfires constitute a particularly complex phenomenon, because they are situated at the nature/society interface. The objective of this article is to show the consequences of these peculiarities as regards scale and analysis.A first part reviews ...
Hélène Dolidon
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Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to develop foundational propositions designed to reflect success factors in the recruitment and retention of volunteers for future longevity. Using insights gathered from three universities' experiences of student volunteering during COVID‐19, plus capturing the experiences of volunteer involving organizations, we ...
Ingrid O'Brien +5 more
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Fermentation, 2021 The incidence and intensity of bushfires is increasing due to climate change, resulting in a greater risk of smoke taint development in wine. In this study, smoke-tainted and non-smoke-tainted wines were subjected to treatments using activated carbon ...
Vasiliki Summerson +4 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The drivers of consumer demand for bushmeat are relatively well studied in tropical forest systems, but much less so in savanna areas. This is important because differing ecological and socio‐economic conditions lead to different factors affecting the relationship between local communities and their natural resources.
Hannah N. K. Sackey +3 more
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Bushfires Royal Commission Implementation Monitor final report 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 This Final Report is delivered in accordance with section 12 of the Bushfires Royal Commission Implementation Monitor Act 2011 (the BRCIM Act). The report records the State’s progress on approximately 300 implementation actions outlined in Implementing ...
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Precursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (Hyperspectral Precursor of the Application Mission, PRISMA) is a new hyperspectral mission by the ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italian Space Agency) mission launched in 2019 to measure the unique ...
Stefania Amici, Alessandro Piscini
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.A challenge for wild plant conservation is the rising incidence of plant pathogens that are difficult to interdict, contain and manage. Invasive, fast‐moving, broad‐spectrum pathogens impose societal costs through losses of intrinsically valuable wild biodiversity, ecosystem function, current and potential genetic and biological assets, culturally ...
Robert O. Makinson +7 more
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