Australia: Bushfire season 2019-20

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2019-20 Australian Bushfires

Introduction

The 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season proved to be unprecedented in many ways. Beginning before the official arrival of spring, in June, and worsening significantly from Sept. 2019 on to mid-January 2020.

Hazards
Wildfire
Country and region
Australia

Knowledge base

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Documents and publications

Wish you were here? The economic impact of the tourism shutdown from Australia’s 2019-20 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires

This comprehensive analysis highlighted the economic impacts of the tourism shutdown from Australia's Black Summer Bushfires. This analysis could be used for budgeting and rebuilding in community-and-industry hotspots that may be far from the burn scar.
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Documents and publications

Resilience policing and disaster management during Australia's Black Summer bushfire crisis

The study illustrates how institutionalized learnings, organizational and systemic reforms, and policing activities enhanced the absorptive and adaptive capabilities of police as emergency responders, emergency management networks, and local residents.
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Research briefs

Smoke from the Black Summer fires could have made the triple La Niña more likely

New research by American scientists suggests the Black Summer fires were massive enough to influence the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle. It’s one of the most important drivers of unusual weather over the entire globe.
Conversation Media Group, the
Woman and man look at the ruins of a home after the fire disaster.
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200 experts dissected the Black Summer bushfires in unprecedented detail. Here are 6 lessons to heed

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic: a landmark in Australia’s history. They burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly forests in southeast Australia. Many of our most distinctive, ancient and vulnerable species were worst affected.
Conversation Media Group, the
2019-20 Australian Bushfires
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Understanding Black Summer through research

Science is shaping how Australia can better prepare for devastating bushfire seasons with the release of comprehensive research based on the major issues of the 2019-20 Black Summer fire season.
Natural Hazards Research Australia
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Black Summer bushfire season cost farmers up to $5 billion

Farming losses amounted to about 8 percent of agricultural GDP. Associate Professor Tina Bell and Chuan Huang from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences call on more support for farmers to protect their land and livelihoods.
University of Sydney
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Documents and publications

Fire on the farm: Assessing the impacts of the 2019-2020 bushfires on food and agricultures in Australia

This report provides a review and synthesis of the economic impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires on agriculture and the wider food system.
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Native forest logging makes bushfires worse – and to say otherwise ignores the facts

Timber removal dramatically changes forest structure, increasing vulnerability to bushfires. And logged forests are more likely to burn out of control.
Conversation Media Group, the
Research briefs

New research finds native forest logging did not worsen the Black Summer bushfires

Research shows logging had little if any effect but the extent and severity were more likely due to unprecedented drought and sustained hot, windy weather.
Conversation Media Group, the
Documents and publications

Lessons from Black Summer: how people experienced the 2019/20 NSW fire season

The 2019/20 bushfire season was unprecedented in NSW, with destructive bushfires occurring across the state between August 2019 and February 2020. Tens of thousands of people were displaced by the fires, including residents, tourists and visitors to

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