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Finlay, Christine School of Sociology &amp Anthropology UNSW. "Smokescreen : black/white/male/female bravery and southeast Australian bushfires." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23006.

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Black/white/male/female struggles over knowledge correctness and who is brave are examined inductively in the field of bushfires. The paradoxes of a white male icon are linked to contradictions in gender theories in disaster. In mainstream literature, assumptions of innate white male superiority in bravery justify white women???s diminution and white male domination. In feminist theory, women???s diminution is the problem and their bravery for struggling against hegemony applauded. Philosophies of bravery are explored in 104 semistructured interviews and 12 months??? fieldwork as a volunteer b

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French, Ian Dept of Computer Science Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Visualisation techniques for the computer simulation of bushfires in two dimensions." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Computer Science, 1992. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38721.

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This thesis examines techniques that provide a method of computer visualisation of bushfire spread. Existing techniques studied include, Kourtz & O???Regan, Green???s Contact, Heat Accumulation, Percolation modelling and Huygens??? Principle by Anderson et.al., French, Roberts, Richards. Many of these techniques are extended as part of a comprehensive study into how they perform in a two dimensional reference frame (ie over flat terrain only). New techniques are defined for Percolation Modelling and Huygens??? Principle. Each technique is examined in a series of test cases which include compu

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Hamra, Jafar Sadeq Abdulhadi. "Network Effects on Learning during Disasters: The Case of Australian Bushfires." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9408.

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Understanding factors that enhance or diminish learning levels of individuals and teams is significant for achieving both individual (low level) and organisational (high level) goals. In this study, the effect of social network factors at all levels of analysis (actor level, dyadic level and network level) on learning attitudes of emergency personnel in emergency events is investigated. Based on social network concepts of structural holes and strength of weak ties, and the social influence model of learning, a conceptual model is developed. To test and validate the model, data was collected fr

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McFarlane, A. "The psychiatric sequelae of a natural disaster : the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MD/09mdm143.pdf.

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Whittaker, William Joshua, and joshua whittaker@rmit edu au. "Vulnerability to bushfires in south-eastern Australia: a case study from East Gippsland, Victoria." RMIT University. Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090401.122025.

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This thesis is an analysis of human vulnerability to bushfires in the Wulgulmerang district of East Gippsland, Victoria, in south-eastern Australia. On January 30, 2003, bushfires devastated the small population of this isolated farming district. The fires destroyed homes, livelihood assets and public infrastructure. They also adversely affected the health, livelihoods and social lives of many local people. Australian bushfire research has traditionally focused on the geophysical dimensions of fire hazards and disasters, with little consideration of how cultural, economic, political and soci

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Virkki, Diana Angelique. "Faunal and Floral Community Responses to Contemporary Fire Regimes in Eucalypt Forests of Southeast Queensland." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367338.

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As an ecological process fire plays a global role in structuring ecosystems and their constituent fauna and flora. Fire is also regularly applied as a landscape management tool and altered fire regimes affect global biodiversity. Fire can have a marked influence on vegetation composition and structure with resultant flow on impacts on faunal communities. However, faunal responses to fire are often quite varied and management recommendations of appropriate fire regimes therefore generally include utilising a fire mosaic approach to fire management. This thesis investigates the relationship betw

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Armstrong, Elizabeth Kate, and n/a. "Tourism destination recovery after the 2003 Canberra fires." University of Canberra. n/a, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20081218.091856.

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The tourism industry is vulnerable to crises and disasters and increasingly government and industry stakeholders are turning their attention to how to prevent, manage and recover from shock events. In the last decade there has been increasing interest in tourism research on crises and disasters, prompted in part by recognition of the tourism industry's vulnerabilities and what appear to be more frequent shock events. The beginning of this century has been marked by a series of crises and disasters including the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in the United Kingdom, the 2001 terrorist hija

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Somers, Vera Louise Jeanne. "Risk Minimization for Spreading Processes over Networks via Surveillance Scheduling and Sparse Control." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27397.

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Spreading processes, such as epidemics and wildfires, have an initial localized outbreak that spreads rapidly throughout a network. The real-world risks associated with such events have stressed the importance and current limitations of methods to quickly map and monitor outbreaks and to reduce their impact by planning appropriate intervention strategies. This thesis is, therefore, concerned with risk minimization of spreading processes over networks via surveillance scheduling and sparse control. This is achieved by providing a flexible optimization framework that combines surveillance and in

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Pippen, Brendan Gerard Physical Environmental &amp Mathematical Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Fuel moisture and fuel dynamics in woodland and heathland vegetation of the Sydney Basin." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38697.

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The vegetation of the Sydney Basin, Australia, is highly flammable and subject to a wide range of fire regimes. Sclerophyllous shrubs and sedges are common and in some vegetation types up to 70 % of fuel consumed during a fire can be live. Research into fire behaviour and fuel dynamics has been minimal. To address this issue this thesis investigated the principal factor affecting the ease of ignition and rate of combustion of individual fuel particles and fuel beds in bushfires: dead fine fuel moisture (FFM). Two common Sydney Basin vegetation types, eucalypt woodland and heathland, each with

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Nti, Frank Kyekyeku. "Climate change vulnerability and coping mechanisms among farming communities in Northern Ghana." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15116.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Agricultural Economics<br>Andrew Barkley<br>This study examines the effect of extreme climatic conditions (drought, flood, and bushfires) on the livelihood of households in the Bawku West district of Ghana. The research identified the mechanisms with which households cope in such situations, and analyzed factors influencing the adoption of coping strategies for flood, coping strategies for drought, and coping strategies for bushfires. Data for the study were collected in selected villages across the district in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 extreme climatic

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Mallet, Marc D. "Water uptake and composition of natural Australian cloud condensation nuclei." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/104437/1/Marc_Mallet_Thesis.pdf.

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This project was an investigation of atmospheric aerosols emitted from the Great Barrier Reef and north Australian fires. The chemical and physical properties of these aerosols were examined to determine their role in cloud formation. Interactions between aerosols and clouds are associated with the largest uncertainty in global climate models. The work of this thesis will contribute towards reducing this uncertainty by providing data for these poorly characterised regions in Australia.

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Johnston, Paul Andrew. "Bushfire Risk Management in Queensland: Issues and Strategies." Thesis, Griffith University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367096.

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Bush fires...two words which conjure up images of destruction and despair. Constituting one of the most destructive forces of nature, their impact has been felt worldwide, extending beyond the damage caused to the physical environment, to include disruption and hardship to communities – impacts which have unfortunately been seen recently in Victoria, where over 200 lives were lost and more than 2000 homes were destroyed by bushfires in February 2009. The level of risk to communities from bush fires has been observed to be steadily increasing in urban-rural interface areas internationally. Conc

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Mackie, Brenda. "Warning fatigue : Insights from the Australian Bushfire Context." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9029.

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Warning Fatigue or Cry-Wolf effect is a taken-for-granted phenomenon that can result from being ‘over-warned’. The terms are used to describe situations where individuals who are exposed to recurring warning messages about a disaster which then does not eventuate become cynical, apathetic and ‘tired’ of hearing warnings. They may become desensitised to the risk thereby endangering themselves even more. The assumption by practitioners (emergency managers and governmental policy-makers for example) that warning fatigue is a problem presents emergency agencies with a conundrum: they want to avoid

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Goessmann, Florian. "Improved spatial resolution of bushfire detection with MODIS." Thesis, Curtin University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/909.

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The capability to monitor bushfires on a large scale from space has long been identified as an important contribution to climate and atmospheric research as well as a tool an aid in natural hazard response. Since the work by Dozier (1981), fire monitoring from space has relied on the principles he described. His method of identifying fires within a pixel significantly larger than the fire by utilizing the different responses of the 3 μm and 11 μm channels has been applied to a number of sensors. Over the last decade a lot of work has been invested to refine and validate fire detections based o

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Goessmann, Florian. "Improved spatial resolution of bushfire detection with MODIS." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, 2007. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17134.

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The capability to monitor bushfires on a large scale from space has long been identified as an important contribution to climate and atmospheric research as well as a tool an aid in natural hazard response. Since the work by Dozier (1981), fire monitoring from space has relied on the principles he described. His method of identifying fires within a pixel significantly larger than the fire by utilizing the different responses of the 3 μm and 11 μm channels has been applied to a number of sensors. Over the last decade a lot of work has been invested to refine and validate fire detections based o

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Proudley, Mae Amber, and mae proudley@rmit edu au. "Fire, Families and Decisions." RMIT University. Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090629.102324.

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This research explores the life experiences of families and couples who lived through the Wangary fire (South Australia, January 2005). Examining the bushfire experience from a domestic perspective is long overdue. Open-ended interviews were conducted with thirty-eight couples and families across the fire-affected region on the Lower Eyre Peninsula. A shortlist of fourteen were analysed in detail and they form the foundation of this thesis. These bushfire narratives include the perspectives of farming and non-farming families and cover a wide spectrum of circumstances and demogra

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Socal, Chiara <1996&gt. "The spread of information: the Australian bushfire crisis 2019-2020." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18794.

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Australia’s environment has always been affected in one way or the other by bushfires. Most of Australia's native plants rely on fire to reproduce themselves. Furthermore, native Australians have been using fire to protect their belongings and for agricultural reasons for centuries. This paper will focus on how the information spread through social media, in particular through Twitter. The aim is to see how information, about the Australian bushfire crisis, spread through Twitter and to see what the public perception was. In further detail, this thesis is divided into three sections. The firs

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Brown, Douglas Norman. "Domestic Architecture and the Perception of Risk in Bushfire-Prone Areas." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18959.

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This thesis examines the way in which the architecture of a house, specifically construction materials and the structure’s immediate environs, influences residents’ perception of bushfire risk. Three research questions were used to consider different aspects of risk perception for domestic architecture within a bushfire context. These questions were: • Do residents living in bushfire-prone areas of Australia give the same bushfire risk rating to their locality and their house? Do these reflect the bushfire risk for the same area as assessed by the state fire authority? • When anticipating a

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Brown, Charlotte Olivia. "Disaster Waste Management: a systems approach." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7038.

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Depending on their nature and severity, disasters can create large volumes of debris and waste. Waste volumes from a single event can be the equivalent of many times the annual waste generation rate of the affected community. These volumes can overwhelm existing solid waste management facilities and personnel. Mismanagement of disaster waste can affect both the response and long term recovery of a disaster affected area. Previous research into disaster waste management has been either context specific or event specific, making it difficult to transfer lessons from one disaster event to a

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Plange, Naa Adubi Lamle. "Decolonising Fire: Recognition justice and Aboriginal fire knowledge in the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire news narrative." Thesis, Department of Government and International Relations, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25697.

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Australia’s 2019-2020 summer bushfires brought to light two key conversations during its news coverage: the need for better forms of bushfire management, and most importantly, the revival of Aboriginal cultural burning practices. The Australian landscape was formed through fire, and for more than 60,000 years, Aboriginal people across the continent have developed knowledge of the land through generations of custodianship and culture. Despite the ecological and scientific value of Aboriginal place-specific knowledge that has developed alongside the changes of this continent's vast ecosystems, t

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De, Vos Johanna B. M. "Respiratory health effects of occupational exposure to bushfire smoke in Western Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Population Health, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0001.

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Bushfires are an integral part of the Australian environment, and consequently Australian fire fighters are regularly confronted with the challenge of bushfire fighting activities. Bushfires can be extensive and long-lasting, and as a result fire fighters can be exposed to bushfire smoke for long periods without respite. Anecdotal evidence suggests that bushfire smoke exposure can lead to respiratory symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. In an optimal environment, fire fighters are equipped with respirators and protective filters to prevent the inhalation of the air tox

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Haimes, Paul William. "Designing for communities in bushfire-prone situations: Redesigning the FireWatch website interface." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1620.

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This research describes the redesign of Landgate’s FireWatch service – a web-based map application that uses data derived from satellites to provide near real-time bushfire information. FireWatch was originally built for emergency services personnel, but recent Australian state government inquiries have called for individuals, households and communities to have independent access to bushfire information. Therefore, it was necessary to redesign FireWatch with a new remote community-based audience in mind. The thesis describes multiple iterations of a user-centred action research design process

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Ruane, Simone Louise. "Adapting Bushfire Policy to Changing Conditions: A Case Study of South-West Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88739.

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Policy strategies that support climate change adaptation to increasing bushfire risk are critical. However, little is known about the socio-institutional dimensions that enable and constrain the bushfire policy sector to adapt to changing conditions. This “Thesis by Compilation” comprises five journal articles that respond to the question: “What factors influence bushfire policy change and how can these insights be used to inform planned adaptation to increased bushfire risk???

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Bayat, Daryoush. "Development of a long range wireless sensor platform." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/469.

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Wireless Sensor Networks have emerged as an exciting field in recent years. There have been numerous studies on how to improve and standardise different aspects of wireless sensor networks. This paper aims to develop a wireless sensor network suitable for environmental monitoring applications. More specifically this paper aims to address the limited communication range of the existing wireless sensor technology. In order to achieve the desired objectives, we have initially developed a hardware platform and then integrated the hardware with a long range RF radio module to achieve the goals. The

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Christensen, Warren. "Nipped in the bud : a situational crime prevention approach to the prevention of bushfire arson /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19432.pdf.

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Plucinski, Matthew Paul Mathematics &amp Statistics Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The investigation of factors governing ignition and development of fires in heathland vegetation." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Mathematics and Statistics, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38702.

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Heathlands typically experience regimes consisting of frequent and intense fires. These fire regimes play important roles in the lifecycles and population dynamics of all species in these communities. Prescribed fire is commonly applied to heathlands to minimise the risk of wildfires as well as to promote biodiversity. Ignitions in heathlands tend to either be unsustainable, or quickly develop into rapidly spreading intense fires. This presents a major problem for the application of prescribed fire and is the primary focus of this thesis. Heathland ignition has been investigated in three

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Ladbrook, Megan. "Spatial and temporal patterns (1973-2012) of bushfire in an arid to semi-arid region of Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1660.

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Aim and background The aim of this study was to reconstruct fire regimes/history of an extensive arid to semi-arid region of Western Australia for the last 40 years by studying temporal and spatial fire scar patterns using remote sensing in a Geographic Information System environment. Methods A fire history database was constructed, for the years 1973-2012 of an area of Western Australia between the Murchison and Minilya Rivers, of all bushfires greater than 1 ha that were visible from Landsat satellite imagery ranging from 30 – 60m ground resolution. The data was analysed to characterise a

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Hill, Beth Emily. "Between bushfire and climate change: Uncertainty, silence and anticipation following the October 2013 fires in the Blue Mountains, Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17762.

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Based on 18 months of ethnographic research in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, following the catastrophic October 2013 bushfires, this thesis investigates the local community response to this disaster as they rebuilt their destroyed homes and recovered. The ambiguity and disagreement surrounding the connection between climate change and the bushfires are analysed as a foundational aspect of how climate change was materialising for residents in daily life. Ambivalence, uncertainty, silence and contradiction characterised the public and private discourse about a heating world in this comm

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Penney, Greg Peter. "Wildfire suppression – an international analysis of operations, strategy and firefighter safety." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2349.

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Wildfire suppression remains an inherently dangerous yet increasingly frequent task for fire services throughout Australia and the world. Each year firefighters from career and volunteer agencies respond to wildfires that impact the urban interface. When such an event occurs during a period of intense fire behaviour the conditions are often incompatible with life for persons either caught in the open or those seeking refuge in a vehicle. In order to improve firefighter safety and operational effectiveness at the rural urban interface (RUI) during landscape scale wildfires, this dissertation se

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Dong, T. T. Trang. "Chemical composition and toxicity of emissions from burning five vegetation types of Western Australia under experimental combustion conditions." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2180.

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This study investigated the emission factors (EFs) for inorganic gases (CO2, CO, SO2, NO and NO2), carbonyls (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetone, propionaldehyde, butyraldehyde and benzaldehyde), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) from laboratory-based fires of vegetation from five typical vegetation types of Western Australia. Species burnt were three grasslands (Spinifex represented by Triodia basedowii, Kimberley grass represented by Sehima nervosum and Heteropogon contortus, and an invasive grass represented by Ehrharta calycina (Veldt grass)), Banks

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Ward, David Jefford. "People, fire, forest and water in Wungong: the landscape ecology of a West Australian water catchment." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2006.

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Bushfire is, in terms of human lives lost, property destroyed, and damage to natural systems, by far the most urgent environmental problem in Australia. This thesis tries to answer a number of questions about bushfire behaviour, history, effects, and management, in the Wungong Catchment of Western Australia. It does so by an overtly cross-disciplinary approach, involving a mixture of the three main streams of human knowledge, namely the humanities, natural science, and social science.First, I offer a literature review of several hundred books and papers drawn from the three main streams of kno

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MPhale, Kgakgamatso M. "Radiowave propagation measurements and prediction in bushfires." Thesis, 2008. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/2028/1/01front.pdf.

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Australian vegetation is fire-prone. Every year, wet and dry sclerophyll forests of Western Australia, southeastern Australia and grassland ecosystems of the northern part of the continent are subject to high intensity fires. The sclerophyll vegetation contains up to 2.71 % of the element potassium. The element exists in plants’ organic matrix: attached to the oxygen containing and carboxyl functional groups; in aqueous form such as potassium (K+) ions surrounded by water; and as discrete particles in dried plant parts. Theoretically, temperature in the conflagrations can be as high as 20

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Towers, BC. "Children's knowledge of vulnerability and resilience to bushfires." Thesis, 2012. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/14807/10/Towers_whole_thesis.pdf.

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Following the Black Saturday bushfire disaster in 2009, the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission strongly recommended that bushfire education be incorporated in the national school curriculum. This recommendation, and its adoption by state governments around Australia, represents a unique opportunity to address the long neglected area of bushfire education for children. However, an extensive literature argues that the success of any hazards education program depends on the degree to which it accommodates the existing knowledge and perspectives of the learner. Yet, to date, there has been no re

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Shearer, Ashleigh. "Child Protection Employees observations of Foster Children s experiences of loss following Bushfires." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/131287.

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This item is only available electronically.<br>Due to the common occurrence of bushfires in Australia, research has previously been conducted on this natural disaster and its long term consequences on individuals, families and communities. Children are particularly vulnerable and can experi ence side effects such as depression, anxiety and self destructive behaviours. Despite there being a large existing body of research on the consequences of this natural disaster, research has not been conducted on foster children and their experiences of l oss following bushfires. Foster children are n

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Fudge, Anthea Leigh. "Analysis and amelioration of smoke taint in wine." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/100716.

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The occurrence of smoke taint in wine is of worldwide concern for grape growers, winemakers and the wine industry. An improved understanding of the impact of bushfire smoke on grapes and wine is important to enable industry to overcome this challenge. Smoke taint occurs when vineyards are exposed to smoke from bushfires or prescribed bums and can result in wine which exhibits undesirable smoky and ashy aromas and flavours. The prior research summarised in Chapter 1 addresses many of the early knowledge gaps concerning the impact of smoke on grape and wine quality such as: the composition of sm

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McFarlane, Alexander Cowell. "The psychiatric sequelae of a natural disaster : the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires / Alexander Cowell McFarlane." 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/38364.

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Typescript (Photocopy)<br>Includes bibliographies<br>3 v. ;<br>Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.<br>Thesis (M.D.)--Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, 1990

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Douglas, Grahame. "Property protection from extreme bushfire events under the influence of climate change." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:36944.

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Natural disasters give rise to loss of life, property (including homes, industry and livelihood) and environmental values and may be increasing with the impacts of climate change. Bushfires are a natural part of the Australian landscape and the ecology of the range of biota found within the various landscapes. They pose significant risks to people and property and require increasing demands for management in the face of these risks. Bushfires (also known as wildland fires) can be highly complex both spatially and temporally within the landscape. Attempts to better explain such events has giv

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Eftekharian, Esmaeel. "Investigation of buoyant plume wind enhancement." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:58465.

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Bushfires are a natural disaster that has a devasting effect on nature and mankind. The vulnerability of buildings to bushfires has caused enormous loss of property and in extreme conditions, loss of life. It is well known that bushfires invade building structures via three mechanisms, namely embers, thermal radiation, and flame contact. Based on recent bushfire field surveys and numerical simulations, bushfire enhanced wind has also been identified to be a major contributor to building damage. Wind enhancement by bushfires can have a destructive impact on buildings arising from the increasing

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Westcott, Rachel. "Advancing public health in the context of natural hazards : normalising preparedness within a framework of adapted protection motivation theory." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:49051.

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This research sought to discover and recommend proactive strategies to strengthen and improve human safety and well-being in a changing climate of natural hazards. This thesis documents the rationale, process and outcomes of that research. People’s ability to navigate their daily lives within an environment of worsening natural hazards is an adaptive public health and safety priority - given the predicted global increase in frequency and severity of extreme weather events. There is an urgent need to strengthen and normalise people’s preparedness behaviour, and to connect it with an uneq

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Kotzur, Ivan. "Remotely sensing primary production recovery following bushfire." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262029.

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Vegetation growth is the key process driving landscape dynamics and carbon flux. Fire disturbs gross primary productivity to varying degrees depending on fire effects and the ability of the landscape to absorb these. Simple remote sensing diagnosis can build a description of vegetation growth considering physiological drivers from the top down, which are related to fire disturbance through time. Analysis of these disturbances in terms of ecosystem processes at landscape scales are not common. This method used here produces results showing a near con

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Sullivan, Andrew. "Competitive Thermokinetics and Non-linear Bushfire Behaviour." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49411.

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The prediction of the behaviour and spread of bushfires has always been fraught with a large number of unknowns,not the least of which has been the seemingly capricious nature of fire itself. Operational bushfire prediction systems, developed as they are using empirical methods, aim to predict the long-term mean spread of a bushfire based on its steady-state behaviour....

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Frandsen, M. "Promoting community bushfire preparedness: Bridging the theory – practice divide." Thesis, 2012. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/15309/1/front-frandsen.pdf.

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The present study adopts a mixed-methods action research approach to examine the validity of a model developed to predict adoption of bushfire preparedness measures, and to subsequently apply the motivational factors found in this model to develop more effective and sustainable community bushfire preparedness initiatives. The research focuses on how individual, social, and societal factors interact to influence the adoption of protective measures against bushfire hazards. The premise upon which the Social Attachment Model of Bushfire Preparedness (Model) is based argues that it is not percepti

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Prior, TD. "Householder bushfire preparation : decision-making and the implications for risk communication." Thesis, 2010. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10756/2/prior-whole.pdf.

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In order to minimise the impact of bushfire hazard consequences on the Australian community it is important to promote protective behaviours among those members of society living in at-risk locations. The adoption of protective behaviours is a core component of contemporary bushfire risk management, and is known to increase the capacity of individuals to maintain or regain prior levels of functioning following significant hazard activity. However, although considerable effort has been directed towards encouraging preparedness for bushfires in Australia, this effort has largely been unrewarded,

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Balcombe, Luke John. "Perceptions of preparedness for bushfire: a case study of Tamborine Mountain." Thesis, 2006. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/2043/1/01front.pdf.

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The research explored perceptions of preparedness for bushfire-related matters at the rural-urban community of Tamborine Mountain. A literature review expressed the need for changes in bushfire mitigation/management as a result of the need for increased self-reliance. The social construction of risk methodology was applied to a multi-method case study to derive and deliver an analysis of agreements and differences in the perceptions/expectations of fire services and the community (see results below). How the fire services’ and the community’s perceptions/expectations agreed: 1. There are

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O'Donnell, Megan. "Effects of bushfire exposure on prenatal and early life development in humans: a life history perspective." Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132117.

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Taking a life history theory perspective, this dissertation considers the effects of bushfire related stress on a suite of human reproductive outcomes. Life history theory suggests that human reproduction is responsive to environmental pressure and that this responsiveness can be detected via changes to reproductive strategy, such as degree of maternal investment. Using multivariate analysis, this dissertation examines the effects of maternal fire exposure in two populations on gestational age, birth weight, secondary sex ratio, plurality rates, fe

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Schauble, J. J. "Red steers and exploding houses: cultural interpretations of bushfire and community understanding." 2008. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/3587.

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Cultural representations of bushfire have long reflected the importance of these events in both the nation’s history and in popular imagination.<br>The central argument of this thesis is that depictions of fire in literature, art, film and popular culture have demonstrated the capacity to shape community understandings of bushfire behaviour and may influence the way in which people respond to and behave during such emergencies. In support of this, the role that bushfire has played in popular culture is explored and the perpetuation of certain myths and understandings through a range of cultura

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McDermott, BMC. "Emotional distress and depression in children and adolescents following Australian bushfire disasters." Thesis, 2005. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20610/1/whole_McDermottBrettMichaelCharles2005_thesis.pdf.

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Given the evidence from epidemiological studies of a substantial unmet child & adolescent mental health service need, it is typical that children with mental health symptoms following a natural disaster are not routinely provided an intervention. However, following a devastating Australian natural disaster the author directed an innovative inter-sectoral response. Proactive, school-based screening for post-disaster mental health sequelae was seen as a way of identifying school-age children with persisting disaster related symptoms. Identified children were offered a targeted mental health inte

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Noellie, Ahou RUETH geb YAO. "Mapping Bushfire Distribution and Burn Severity in West Africa Using Remote Sensing Observations." Doctoral thesis, 2010. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-54244.

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Fire has long been considered to be the main ecological factor explaining the origin and maintenance of West African savannas. It has a very high occurrence in these savannas due to high human pressure caused by strong demographic growth and, concomitantly, is used to transform natural savannas into farmland and is also used as a provider of energy. This study was carried out with the support of the BIOTA project funded by the German ministry for Research and Education. The objective of this study is to establish the spatial and temporal distribution of bushfires during a long observation peri

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Evans, Kathryn. "‘Antipodean England’? A history of drought, fire and flood in Tasmania from European settlement in 1803 to the 1960s." Thesis, 2012. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/12935/1/Evans_thesis.pdf.

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The influence of climatic variability on the European history of Tasmania has largely been neglected as a field of study. It is demonstrated here that severe weather events, such as drought, floods, storms, extreme cold and bushfires, have had a significant impact on that history. Drought affected farming operations, town water supplies, mining and industry, and later hydro-electric power generation. Floods and storms disrupted transport and communication networks and damaged property in towns and in the country. Bushfires also periodically wrought widespread property damage. An environmental

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Robinson, Alice. "Landfall: reading and writing Australia through climate change." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24440/.

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This creative writing thesis begins with the premise that climate change poses critical outcomes for the Australian continent, and asks what the consequences of this are as the precariousness of Australia’s future in relation to climate change continues to gather pace. Comprising a novel (70%) and exegesis (30%), the thesis as a whole seeks to explore the connections between climate change, land and culture in Australia, and to investigate settler Australian understandings regarding ‘place’, ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ in relation to both settlement and unsettledness in contemporary times.

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