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Gender Justice in the Triple Planetary Crisis: A Scoping Review
ABSTRACT Aim To identify and report how gender justice is conceptualised and discussed in contemporary health literature in relation to the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and gender‐diverse populations, and the representation of nurses and other healthcare ...
Catelyn Richards +7 more
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Understanding and Addressing the Disruptive Impacts of Contemporary Climate Crises
Abstract Contemporary climate crises, such as wildfires, droughts, floods, and tropical storms, are increasing in frequency, intensity, scale, and duration. Organization and management scholars have been calling for more systematic study of the impacts of this increasing complexity on extant crisis governance arrangements and capacities for ...
Jaco Fourie +6 more
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Recovery from Bushfires: The Experience of the 2003 Canberra Bushfires three Years After
Background and Aim The Canberra Bushfires were one of the largest single day natural disasters in Australian history. A group of researchers from across disciplines and sectors (Universities and Government) undertook a major project to study the experiences of people directly affected by the fires in the ...
Camilleri, Peter J +6 more
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Coerced Volunteering: Provision of Frontline Social Services During Emergencies
ABSTRACT The study examines social service provision during emergencies, with the October 2023 war in Israel as a case study. Building on literature devoted to coping strategies adopted by frontline social service providers, which primarily addresses routine contexts, our research explores their adaptation during crises.
Ofri Shalev Greenman, Einat Lavee
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Names for Weather Disasters in Australia
Despite the importance of weather disasters, the names that people give them have been little treated in scholarship, both from an Australian perspective and from that of other parts of the world. This article explores patterns in the naming of bushfires
Helen Bromhead
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Abstract This study investigates the claim that women are disproportionately more likely to die in disasters by reviewing existing data sources and compiling new datasets on sex‐differentiated disaster fatalities in the twenty‐first century. The analysis is structured by disaster type, covering geophysical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological,
Olivier Rubin
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Global Hotspots of Stalling Extratropical Cyclones
Abstract Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are primary drivers of extreme weather in the mid‐to‐high latitudes. We introduce a new classification of particularly impactful events—“stalling” ETCs—defined by slow movement combined with intense precipitation. Using cyclone tracking data, we find that stalling ETCs cluster systematically along the east coasts ...
Valentina Ortiz‐Guzmán +2 more
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Helping children who have been affected by bushfires
As bushfires continue to rage, over six hundred schools and early education centres have been closed in Queensland and New South Wales. The devastating toll of the fires have been felt by many across the country, with some children having been urgently ...
Rees, Bronwyn +2 more
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In this article, we experiment with a form of dark pedagogy, a pedagogy that confronts haunting pasts∼presents∼futures in environmental education. We offer a conceptualisation of ghosts that enables us to creatively explore the duration of things and ...
Scott Jukes, Kathryn Riley
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We used public databases and citizen science data entered into WomSAT to model and predict the distribution of bare‐nosed wombats across Australia. ABSTRACT Current understanding of bare‐nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus) distribution has focused on specific regions, and human–wombat issues (e.g., burrowing leading to undermining fence integrity and ...
Yuanting Jiang +3 more
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