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A Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre forum on fire in the high country will be held this week in Albury.
This two-day forum will present the latest research findings to...
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More than 40 invited Australian, New Zealand and United States researchers, practitioners and policy-makers will gather in Melbourne and Canberra next week for a research...
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South-west Western Australia is one of the most fire-prone regions in the world due to the combination of a Mediterranean-type climate with hot dry summers and the presence of...
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Why do good firefighters sometimes make poor decisions? This research, undertaken by a La Trobe University team led by psychology lecturer Dr Mary Omodei in collaboration...
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The Bushfire Management Business Model project - led by Dr Kevin Tolhurst of the University of Melbourne - was born out of the recognition that while bushfire management has been...
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Accurate numbers on the economic, social and environmental costs of bushfires are hard to identify. Estimates often ignore economic principles and are of limited value in...
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The bushfires that threaten Australian homes and lives on a regular basis originate with a small number of common causes. One is arson, or the deliberate criminal setting of...
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The impact of smoke from prescribed and fuel reduction burns and wildfires on community health is an area of growing public interest. To minimise the impact of smoke on the...
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Led by University of Tasmania education senior lecturer Dr Christine Owen, this project has studied communications among members of incident management teams working under the...
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Modelling bushfire spread improves decision-making in critical scenarios. This project developed reliable bushfire spread simulation and animation technology to support a wide...
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Firefighter safety is a high priority for fire agencies. Battling fires in hot and smoky conditions is at times unsafe and unhealthy. Firefighters are subject to stressful...
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The number of aircraft used in fighting bushfires in Australia rose from just a few in the mid-1970s to several dozen by 2010, with some, especially the large Erickson Aircrane...
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Risk communication is an ongoing difficulty for fire and emergency services. Official reports continue to refer to the need for better, timely warnings and advice on safe action...
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A key issue for this project was to resolve whether smoke from prescribed fires differs from smoke produced by wildfires.
Dr Tina Bell, then at the University of Melbourne...
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This project was the first, comprehensive investigation into the life cycle of fire behaviour, from initiation, through development, to steady-state behaviour. Knowledge gained...
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Better management of emergency incidents can reduce any adverse consequences on communities. As such, the aim of this project was to better understand how multi-agency emergency...
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Prescribed fires over large forest areas are essential to reduce the risk of large-scale bushfires, particularly in forests near population centres and important forest assets...
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Addressing the impacts of climate and global change on fire regimes is one of the most important strategic issues confronting bushfire managers in Australia. This project...
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Issue 62: Research from the HighFire Risk Project.
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Issue 61: Research from the HighFire Risk Project.
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Issue 55: This research provides guidance on the types of sediment traps to use - hay bales, coir bales or silt fencing - to reduce the amount of mobilised sediment reaching water...
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Issue 42 - This research project focused on understanding information flows and incident management team effectiveness.
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Issue 41 - Enhancing Emergency Incident Management Team Effectiveness and Organisational
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Issue 44 - The Safe Behaviour and Decision Making project aimed to identify the human factors that lead Australian bushfire fighters to make decisions that place themselves or...
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Issue 43 - Research into firefighter health, safety and well-being on the fireground focussing on the deployment of people who are fit for duty.
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Issue 36 - Burning for biodiversity through traditional fire management.
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Issue 32 - This Fire Note is a summary of the review of the research relating to the effects of fire on vegetation in the Australian high country.
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Issue 31 - Remote sensing of forest canopies to quantify burn severity.
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Issue 25 - an update of Fire Note 4 with an emphasis on research directions.
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