Download or read book Inquiry Into the Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inquiry Into the Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria written by Victoria. Parliament. Environment and Natural Resources Committee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Inquiry Into Vegetation and Land Management Policy Relating to Bushfires written by Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inferno written by Roger Franklin and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of Roger Franklin, fire can be "a curious, wonderful thing". On February 7, 2009, however, there was nothing wonderful about the flames that engulfed Victoria, killing 173 people and reducing several towns to dust. Franklin's book, INFERNO: THE DAY VICTORIA BURNED, is the first to explore the horrors of the day that will forever be known as Black Saturday. Not only does the author explain what happened that day - individual heroism, unimaginable tragedy, tales of towns all but wiped off the map - but also why it happened. The author examines the roles of the Victorian government, the CFA and the local councils that were so determined to protect roadside vegetation. He analyses the pros and cons of preventive burning, questions the merits of the state's controversial stay-or-go policy, and delves into the mind of an arsonist. Through it all, there is a clear message: failure was everywhere on Black Saturday. With bushfires a constant threat in Australian life, Franklin cites many important lessons that need to be learned if such a disaster is to be avoided in the future.
Download or read book Making Sense of Natural Disasters written by Graham Dwyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural disasters. Examining recent bushfires in Australia, it demonstrates that whilst public inquiries that follow such disasters can be important for learning and change, they have ultimately created a learning vacuum insofar as their recommendations repeat themselves. This has kept governments and society focused on learning lessons about the past, rather than for the future. Accordingly, this book recommends a new approach to sensemaking and learning focused on prospective planning rather than retrospective recommendations, and where planning for the future is seen as the shared responsibility of the government, society, and the emergency management community in Australia and beyond.
Download or read book Inquiry Into the Efficacy of Past and Current Vegetation and Land Management Policy Practice and Legislation and Their Effect on the Intensity and Frequency of Bushfires and Subsequent Risk to Property Life and the Environment written by House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Energy and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Inquiry Into the 2002 2003 Victorian Bushfires written by Bruce Esplin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria written by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume (except v. 6, new ser., v. 27).
Download or read book Victorian Government submission for Inquiry into Environmental Impact of Bushfires by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia Burning written by Geoffrey Cary and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Wildlife Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burning Issues written by Mark Adams and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Australia is one of the three most fire-prone areas on Earth. After more than a century of urban growth and valiant efforts to ‘tame’ the bush, recent decades have seen more people moving back onto the fringe or into the middle of this volatile landscape. As this movement has intensified, so has the debate on how to best protect life and property from the ever-present bushfire threat. A long-running drought and a predicted warming climate have ensured that bushfire is a dominant factor in our nation’s long-term planning. Following the tragic Victorian Black Saturday fires in 2009, a much greater urgency now confronts policy makers, land and fire managers and communities living in bushfire areas. This has led to a call for a single, simple answer on fuel reduction burning to reduce the bushfire risk. Burning Issues explains that this is a complex issue without such a simple answer. The book gives an account of the role of fire in Australia’s ecosystems, how we have to accept and live with fire, and how we can manage fire both for safety and for diversity. It aims to change people’s attitudes to fire, and to be influential in encouraging changes in land management by government agencies.
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature written by Anne Ross and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and global in scope, this book critically evaluates the range of management options that claim to have integrated Indigenous peoples and knowledge, and then outline an innovative, alternative model of co-management, the Indigenous Stewardship Model.
Download or read book National Bushfire Management Policy Statement for Forests and Rangelands written by Australian Capital Territory Governent - Forest Fire Management Group and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Board of Inquiry Into the Occurrence of Bush and Grass Fires in Victoria written by Victoria. Board of Inquiry into the Occurrence of Bush and Grass Fires in Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Management on Public Land Victoria Burns While Its Bureaucracy Fiddles written by Athol Hodgson AM and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report compares and contrasts, over the past three decades, the prevention, suppression and planned use of fire on the one third of Victoria that is public land. It identifies on-going failure in government policy, organisation and strategic direction to cope with Victoria's major natural hazard - bushfire.The State benefitted from previous reforms enacted as a result of Judge Leonard Stretton's inquiry into the 1939 Black Friday bushfires and from emergency management reform (1986) following the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires. Five years on Victorian's are yet to benefit from many of the key recommendations of the 2009 Bushfires Royal Commission.Lessons now unheeded and problems that remain unaddressed or worse, resisted, are identified.Of particular concern is the lack of fuel reduction burning to mitigate risk, increase community and the natural environment's resilience to destructive high intensity bushfire and assist aggressive first attack to quickly bring bushfires under control.Appropriateness of a new large command and control statutory body, Emergency Management Victoria, now governing crisis and emergency management, including bushfire on public land, is evaluated in the context of the also newly established State Crisis and Resilience Council's three standing sub-committees: risk and resilience; capability and response; and relief and recovery.Recommendations are made, it is argued, which will underpin the restoration of Victoria's once enviable national and international standing in the field of forest fire management on public land.
