Author : Adam Leavesley
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File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
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ISBN : 9780994258946
Prescribed Burning in Australasia
Adam Leavesley
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Australia Burning
Geoffrey Cary
Author : Geoffrey Cary
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780643069268
Integrates both the natural and social sciences in addressing the issues of fire management and policy.
Australia Burning
Geoffrey Cary
Author : Geoffrey Cary
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643098542
The phenomenon of fire in the Australian landscape traverses many interests and disciplines. At a national level, there is an urgent need for the integration of both the natural and social sciences in the formulation of public policy. With contributions from 30 leading experts, Australia Burning draws together these issues, under the themes: *Ecology and the environment *Fire behaviour and fire regime science *People and property *Policy, institutional arrangements and the legal framework *Indigenous land and fire management The book examines some of the key questions that relate to the ecology, prediction and management of fire, urban planning, law, insurance, and community issues, including indigenous and non-indigenous concerns. It looks at what we need to know to inform public policy, given the present risks and uncertainty, and explores the avenues for closer integration between science, policy and the community.
Fire Country
Victor Steffensen
Author : Victor Steffensen
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1743586833
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of cultural burning practices, and improved 'reading' of country, could help to restore our land. From a young age, Victor has had a passion for traditional cultural and ecological knowledge. This was further developed after meeting two Elders, who were to become his mentors and teach him the importance of cultural burning. Developed over many generations, this knowledge shows clearly that Australia actually needs fire. Moreover, fire is an important part of a holistic approach to the environment, and when burning is done in a carefully considered manner, this ensures proper land care and healing. Victor's story is unassuming and honest, while demonstrating the incredibly sophisticated and complex cultural knowledge that has been passed down to him, which he wants to share with others. As global warming sees more parts of our planet burning, this book emphasises the value of Indigenous knowledge systems. There is much evidence that, if adopted, it could greatly benefit the land here in Australia and around the world.
Burning Bush
Stephen J. Pyne
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295998830
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.”—New York Times Book Review
Wildland Fires and Air Pollution
Andrzej Bytnerowicz
Author : Andrzej Bytnerowicz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080560490
The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge. Fuels treatments proposed for National Forests are intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency and severity, as well as to protect property located in the wild land-urban interface. However, prescribed fires produce gases and aerosols that have instantaneous and long-term effects on air quality. If fuels treatment are not conducted, however, then wild land fires become more severe and frequent causing worse public health and wellfare effects. A better understanding of air pollution and smoke interactions is needed in order to protect the public health and allow for socially and ecologically acceptable use of fire as a management tool. Wildland Fires and Air Pollution offers such an understanding and examines innovative wide-scale monitoring efforts (field and remotely sensed), and development of models predicting spatial and temporal distribution of air pollution and smoke resulting from forests fires and other sources. Collaborative effort of an international team of scientists High quality of invited chapters Full colour
Burn
Paul Collins
Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1922072443
‘Dry heat and hot, dry winds worked upon a land already dry, to suck from it the last, least drop of moisture. Men who had lived their lives in the bush went their ways in the shadow of dread expectancy. But though they felt the imminence of danger they could not tell that it was to be far greater than they could imagine. They had not lived long enough.’ — Report of the Royal Commission into the bushfires of January 1939 With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in this country. In Burn Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushfire in Australia, drawing on accounts of the most devastating conflagrations in Australia’s European history — from the 1851 Black Thursday fire (which burnt out one quarter of Victoria) to the 1939 Black Friday fires (which took many lives and destroyed thousands of hectares in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania), the Canberra inferno of 2003, and the Black Saturday fires of February 2009. Frightening, compelling, vivid, and provocative, Burn reveals stories of heroism, stupidity, political incompetence, and environmental vandalism. This is the grand narrative of bushfire in Australia, the most fire-prone land on Earth.
Burning Issues
Mark Adams
Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0643094431
The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity.
Flammable Australia
Ross A. Bradstock
Author : Ross A. Bradstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521805919
Fire is pivotal to the functioning of ecosystems in Australia, affecting the distribution and abundance of the continent's unique and highly diverse range of plants and animals. Conservation of this natural biodiversity therefore requires a good understanding of scientific processes involved in the action of fire on the landscape. This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of current knowledge in this area and its application in contemporary land management. Central to the discussion is an exploration of the concept of the fire regime and its interactions with biodiversity.
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand
Scott McKinnon
Author : Scott McKinnon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811543828
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.