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Essential Bushfire Safety Tips

Author : Joan Webster OAM
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643107819
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Essential Bushfire Safety Tips written by Joan Webster OAM and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of the acclaimed The Complete Bushfire Safety Book, this third edition of Joan Webster OAM’s Essential Bushfire Safety Tips deals with people's fears and concerns about wildfires in general, and the maze of official safety policies. Its concise and straightforward style clears a path of understanding through the tangle of conflicting opinions and misconceptions. It identifies the shortcomings and likely adverse repercussions of some of these policies, defines the actions necessary for people to stay safe during a bushfire – and their homes to remain intact – and sets out safe procedures. Essential Bushfire Safety Tips reveals the scientific post-wildfire research into why people who stayed with their homes died during the 2009 Black Saturday fires, and shows that, despite the almost universal media reports that 'nothing could be done to save homes on such a day', many householders did, in fact, save their homes. Included are chapters on township protection; shelters, refuges and bunkers; as well as information on choices of home bushfire safety strategies; protective house design, furnishings and gardens; protection of animals; and first aid. This book fills the gap between bushfire authority brochures and long, in-depth books. Backed by scientific facts, it brings a message of hope and empowerment: that with appropriate knowledge, preparation and awareness, towns, homes and people can survive wildfires. Set out in easy-to-access dot-point one-liners, it demystifies bushfire behaviour, explains how to prevent a bushfire from destroying houses, details wildfire safety at each stage of threat, describes weather factors and safe burning-off, details the benefits and hazards of staying, non-defensive sheltering, and evacuating, and how to make the decision on which course is best for you.

Community Bushfire Safety

Author : John Handmer
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643098771
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Community Bushfire Safety written by John Handmer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management. Managing community safety requires a diversity of knowledge and an understanding of the many social processes that shape and ultimately determine a community’s resilience to bushfire. The wide range of issues covered in this volume reflects this diversity, including research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonist’s rationale; the influence of the media; the role of economics in bushfire management and decision-making; understanding declines in fire brigade volunteerism; bushfire safety policy and its implementation; the effectiveness of community education and risk reduction schemes; and modes of building ignition. Community Bushfire Safety is accessible to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and students. While the research reported has been undertaken in Australia, much of the material is generic and is likely to be relevant and useful to those dealing with community bushfire safety elsewhere in the world.

Community Bushfire Safety

Author : John W. Handmer
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643094261
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Community Bushfire Safety written by John W. Handmer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management. The wide range of issues covered in this volume include research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonists ra.

Building in Bushfire-prone Areas

Author : G. Caird Ramsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building in Bushfire-prone Areas written by G. Caird Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas

Author : Caird Ramsay
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 064309881X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas by : Caird Ramsay

Download or read book Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas written by Caird Ramsay and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a building surviving a bushfire. If you are designing landscapes and buildings in bushfire areas you need to be aware of these factors so that the chances of losses to life and property can be minimised. Landscape & Building Design for Bushfire Areas integrates the latest scientific knowledge about buildings and bushfires with a flexible design approach. The book contains two main sections: 1) Provides a clear description of what happens in a bushfire. It describes the environment in which bushfires occur, how a fire attacks, and how buildings are ignited and destroyed. 2) Sets out a practical design approach to the design of buildings and their immediate surroundings. It presents a range of options for designing the various elements of both landscapes and buildings in bushfire-prone areas. This book encourages design for bushfire to be included as a normal part of designing in bushfire-prone areas, rather than as an undesirable add-on. It will assist planning and building regulatory authorities to improve and administer regulatory requirements and guidelines.

The Complete Bushfire Safety Book

Author : Joan Webster OAM
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 174274740X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Bushfire Safety Book written by Joan Webster OAM and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete, comprehensive, unequalled guide to bushfire safety in Australia. Thoroughly researched, with up to date information on every aspect of the subject. "I commend this book to every Australian... It could save your life" - N.P. Cheney, CSIRO Bushfire Behaviour and Management Group Background to bushfires, bushfire cycles, bushfire behaviour, how to prepare for bushfire season, the decision - evacuate or stay and what to do when bushfire threatens are all covered.

Law, Policy and Climate Change

Author : Dariel De Sousa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000683931
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Law, Policy and Climate Change written by Dariel De Sousa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe. Systemic risks are risks that threaten the systems upon which society depends, including ecosystems, social systems, financial systems, and systems of infrastructure. Such risks are typically characterised by inherent complexity, profound uncertainty, and overwhelming ambiguity. In combination, these features pose significant regulatory challenges for policy and law-makers. Examining how different types of systemic risks caused by climate change are being regulated in four different jurisdictions – the EU, the UK, the US and Australia – this book identifies deficiencies associated with regulating systemic risks using a traditional approach, based on a linear relationship between risk and regulation, which is widely used to regulate risk. The book advances a regulatory approach that is, instead, founded on the concept of "risk governance". This involves a structured yet flexible, holistic, interdisciplinary and inclusive basis for responding to systemic risks; and it is, this book argues, a more effective basis for regulating systemic risks given their uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. This book will appeal to academics, policy and law-makers and practitioners working at the intersection of law and policy in the areas of regulation, risk management and climate change.

Transitions

Author : Peter W. Newton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402088124
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Transitions written by Peter W. Newton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal among them are resource-constraints, such as oil, water, food, skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both of which will strongly shape urban development this century. Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience of Australia’s cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyles and consumption patterns. With contributions from 92 researchers – all leaders in their respective fields – this book offers the expertise to chart pathways for a sustainability transition.

Safer Gardens

Author : Lesley Corbett
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922454605
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Safer Gardens written by Lesley Corbett and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destructive bushfires are increasing in frequency and intensity around the world. For people living in fire prone areas there are no reliable guides about which plants have low flammability and which are frighteningly flammable. Safer Gardens is that guide, with over 500 plants assessed, based on fire research from around the world. Readers can look up a plant in the Plant Flammability Table to get an idea of its flammability then turn to the A–Z for more detailed information. The book contains advice about ways to create a more firesafe garden, including the need to carefully manage the use of mulch and hedges. This is citizen science, written by a gardener for other gardeners. Complex and potentially confusing science is made comprehensible and usable, to help you make your garden and hence your house safer.

Natural Hazards in Australasia

Author : James Goff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107682592
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards in Australasia written by James Goff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook designed for students taking a course in natural hazards with an Australasian focus and context. In full colour and richly supported by photographs, illustrations and maps.

Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises

Author : Alastair Stark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192567993
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises written by Alastair Stark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of major crises governments turn to public inquiries to learn lessons. Inquiries often challenge established authority, frame heroes and villains in the public spotlight and deliver courtroom-like drama to hungry journalists. As such, they can become high-profile political stories in their own right. Inquiries also have a policy learning mandate with big implications because they are ultimately responsible for identifying policy lessons which, if implemented, should keep us safe from the next big event. However, despite their high-profile nature and their position as the pre-eminent means of learning about crises, we still know very little about what inquiries produce in terms of learning and what factors influence their effectiveness in this regard. In light of this, the question that animates this book is as important as it is simple. Can post-crisis inquiries deliver effective lesson-learning which will reduce our vulnerability to future threats? Conventional wisdom suggests that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no. Outside of the academy, for example, inquiries are regularly vilified as costly wastes of time that illuminate very little while inside social scientists echo similar concerns, regularly describing inquiries as unhelpful. These commentaries, however, lack robust, generalizable evidence to support their claims. This volume provides evidence from the first international comparison of post-crisis inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, which shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the post-crisis inquiry is an effective means of policy learning after crises and that they consistently encourage policy reforms that enhance our resilience to future threats.

Understanding Bushfire

Author : Colleen Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921185601
Total Pages : 1481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Bushfire written by Colleen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 1481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the most fire-prone continent and country on Earth. While fire is an essential component of many ecosystems, a natural instrument for maintaining biodiversity and hence a tool that enables many species to survive, not all fires are natural or beneficial. Humans play a significant role in modifying the timing, frequency and size of bushfires, in some cases to the detriment of the environment and to the endangerment of property and human life. While some human-caused fires are for the purposes of managing the environment, protecting human life and property, or the result of accidental actions, many fires occur through negligence, carelessness, mischievousness, or outright maliciousness, with little regard for either the environment or people who might be adversely affected. It is this latter group of fires - herein referred to as deliberate ignitions - that forms the central theme of this report. This report represents the first concerted effort to document the number, size and distribution of potentially illegal fires lit in vegetation in Australia. The report is based on vegetation fire data supplied by a large number of fire agencies across Australia. It is technical in nature, which reflects the fact that in many instances the information provided by fire services is, in itself, complex. The report provides a basis for guiding research and policies adopted by fire agencies, other researchers and interested individuals. It forms the basis for a number of smaller publications that summarise the key findings of the document.

Wildland Fire

Author : Michael John Gollner
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889639665
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Wildland Fire written by Michael John Gollner and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Owner Builder

Author : Leeza Sipek
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643100423
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Owner Builder written by Leeza Sipek and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide for people who want to build their dream home in a financially responsible manner. From choosing a block of land to decorating the inside of the house, this book guides the reader through the entire building process.

Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings

Author : Andrew Buchanan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000683575
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings written by Andrew Buchanan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides guidance on the design of timber buildings for fire safety, developed within the global network Fire Safe Use of Wood (FSUW) and with reference to Eurocode 5 and other international codes. It introduces the behaviour of fires in timber buildings and describes strategies for providing safety if unwanted fires occur. It provides guidance on building design to prevent any fires from spreading while maintaining the load-bearing capacity of structural timber elements, connections and compartmentation. Also included is information on the reaction-to-fire of wood products according to different classification systems, as well as active measures of fire protection, and quality of workmanship and inspection as means of fulfilling fire safety objectives. Presents global guidance on fire safety in timber buildings Provides a wide perspective, covering the whole field of fire safety design Uses the latest scientific knowledge, based on recent analytical and experimental research results Gives practical examples illustrating the importance of good detailing in building design Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings is ideal for all involved in the fire safety of buildings, including architects, engineers, firefighters, educators, regulatory authorities, insurance companies and professionals in the building industry.

Fire Research and Engineering, Third International Conference Proceedings

Author : Conference Editors
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566768887
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Fire Research and Engineering, Third International Conference Proceedings written by Conference Editors and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-10-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Grandma's Guidelines to Prevent Childhood Accidents

Author : Florence Parry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483639606
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Great Grandma's Guidelines to Prevent Childhood Accidents written by Florence Parry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to bring about a general community awareness of ALREADY KNOWN CONTRIBUTING FACTORS and PRECAUTIONS that can be taken to prevent the constant re-occurrence of PREDICTABLE childhood accidents that occur to children aged from 0 to 14 years of age. PREVENTION is BETTER than CURE - SOMETIMES there is NO CURE When a baby is born, the parents are not magically bestowed with "all the knowledge and skills of child rearing". This has to be learned. "NOT the HARD WAY by TRIAL and ERROR" Rearing children in such a way can lead to a child having to pay a very high price for his learning experience and the Carer' at the time of the accident become deeply affected by feelings of regret and sorrow. It makes more sense for parents to FIND OUT BEFORE rather than AFTER an accident has occurred the precautions they could have taken. IF ONLY THEY HAD KNOWN.