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Book Synopsis Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas by : G. Caird Ramsay
Download or read book Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas written by G. Caird Ramsay and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape & Building Design for Bushfire Areas 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.
Book Synopsis Community Bushfire Safety by : John W. Handmer
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.
Book Synopsis Green Buildings and the Law by : Julie Adshead
Download or read book Green Buildings and the Law written by Julie Adshead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislation and regulation are driving green development and compliance in a wide variety of ways. This review of the law in key jurisdictions for the research community, lawyers, the construction industry and government examines some of the mechanisms in place - from the more traditional building regulation controls to green leases and the law relating to buildings and their natural environment.
Book Synopsis Australian Planting Design by : Paul Thompson
Download or read book Australian Planting Design written by Paul Thompson and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Planting Design identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. This new edition guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new garden and helps to visualise the garden through an understanding of space, light, earth form, structures and vegetation. It discusses the choosing of plants, their form and shape, balancing plant types, fire and vegetation, design and form. The final section of the book looks at the dynamic garden and the importance of designing for change. Australian Planting Design focuses on how Australian plants may be used in gardens, whatever their size, function or site. It shows the way to use our plants to form a variety of satisfying, interesting and purposeful areas for both people and nature. As the availability of a much wider range of Australian plants grows, so too does our understanding of their qualities and habits. Our changing ecological attitudes and broader understanding of local habitats have brought the Australian landscape into sharper focus and we have gained a new appreciation of its value for design expression. We are beginning to develop an urban landscape that belongs to the land, and garden designs that are more suitable to the environment of tomorrow. At last we have Australian plants for Australian places.
Book Synopsis Essential Bushfire Safety Tips by : Joan Webster OAM
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.
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.
Book Synopsis The Elements of Architecture by : Scott Drake
Download or read book The Elements of Architecture written by Scott Drake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elements of Architecture is a clear and well structured introduction to sustainable architecture, which concentrates on general principles to make an accessible and comprehensive primer for undergraduate students. The author takes a fresh and logical approach, focusing on the way aspects of the built environment are experienced by the occupants and how that experience is interpreted in architectural design. He works through basic elements and senses (sun; heat; light; sound; air; water and fire) to explain and frame effective environmental architectural design - not only arguing that the buildings we inhabit should be viewed as extensions of our bodies that interact with and protect us from these elements, but also using this analogy to explain complex ideas in an accessible manner.
Download or read book The Victorian Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice by : Anna Lukasiewicz
Download or read book Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice written by Anna Lukasiewicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.
Book Synopsis Positive Development by : Janis Birkeland
Download or read book Positive Development written by Janis Birkeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices.
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.
Book Synopsis Towards an Integrated Model for Designing for Building Survival in Bushfires by : G. Caird Ramsay
Download or read book Towards an Integrated Model for Designing for Building Survival in Bushfires written by G. Caird Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, there have generally been two approaches to mitigating building destruction. One approach has been to manage the vegetation (the 'landscape approach') whereas the other has been to select building materials and designs to minimise the effect of the bushfire attack (the 'building approach'). There is a need to combine these two approaches and this paper suggests that it can be done on the basis of the agents by which bushfires ignite, damage and destroy buildings, viz burning debris, radiant heat, flame and wind. A model to combine these approaches might be comprised of three modules: (a) the first module is the potential bushfire attack, based upon the properties of the vegetation producing that attack; (b) the second module is the modification of the attack by the environmental conditions and the landscape (this provides the opportunity to use the 'landscape approach'); and (c) the third module is the reaction of building materials and design to the (modified) bushfire attack (this provides for the 'building approach'). This paper describes such an integrated model, briefly discusses the current state of knowledge with regard to the modules and the research that is needed to realise a quantitative model.
Download or read book Marine & Freshwater Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drawing Climate written by Daniel Ryan and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Für das umweltbezogene, nachhaltige Entwerfen sind sich stetig ändernde Naturkräfte wie Niederschlag und Feuer, Schatten und Wind zu wichtigen Faktoren geworden. Dieses Buch geht mit Beispielen aus Architektur und Landschaft der Geschichte, den Theorien und Anwendungen der klimagerecht gebauten Umwelt nach. Es wurde in Zusammenarbeit zwischen der University of Sydney und der National University of Singapore entwickelt und von Autoren aus Australien, Singapur und den USA verfasst. Im Rahmen der Kategorien "Trocken", "Feucht", "Kühl" and "Heiß" werden Darstellungspraktiken, -methoden und -beispiele in einer weiten Spanne thematisiert: von Wolken und Sturm bis hin zu Feuer und Eis. Ein abschließender Teil zeigt Anwendungsbeispiele in experimentellen Projektentwürfen.
Book Synopsis The Behaviour of Vegetation as Applied to the Landscaping Around Buildings in Bushfire Areas - a Review and Evaluation by : Lisle Rudolph
Download or read book The Behaviour of Vegetation as Applied to the Landscaping Around Buildings in Bushfire Areas - a Review and Evaluation written by Lisle Rudolph and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Landscaping for Fire written by and published by UCANR Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating fire safe concepts into your landscape is one of the most important ways you can help your home survive a wildfire. You can have both a beautiful landscape and a fire safe home when you establish and maintain a "defensible space.
Book Synopsis California Wildfire Landscaping by : Maureen Gilmer
Download or read book California Wildfire Landscaping written by Maureen Gilmer and published by Taylor Publishing Company (TX). This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to create bands of protection with plants, managing native vegetation, getting help from public and private resources and how to comply with the high fire zones law.
