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Displaying 15 of about 23 resultsThe Tonga Cyclone Ian Recovery Project (the project) will support the Government of Tonga reconstruct and climate proof the main electricity grid network in the Nuku’alofa, damaged by Tropical Cyclone Gita. On the evening of 12 February and early morning of 13 February 2018, Tropical Cyclone Gita passed by the main island of Tongatapu and the nearby isl…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This infographic shows the overview of the Australian Government's efforts including impacts, funding and action, to support the recovery of its native wildlife and their habitats from the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20.
On Saturday February 20, 2016, Tropical Cyclone (TC) Winston, an extremely destructive Category 5 cyclone, struck Fiji. TC Winston was the first Category 5 cyclone to directly impact Fiji and the most intense cyclone on record to affect the country. Fiji’s Eastern Division was the first to be struck, with Koro, Ovalau and Taveuni Islands sustaining seve…
The purpose of this document is to highlight design considerations for conducting post-fire reconnaissance surveys to assess fire severity, habitat condition and threats, as well as the status of priority threatened species and ecological communities listed by the federal Government as most vulnerable to the 2019-20 wildfires. The document consists of f…
Fire occurs naturally in many ecosystems and is predicted to increase in frequency and severity with climate change. The 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season was extreme, unprecedented in scale and severity, burning almost 19 million ha. This included half of the Gondwanan rainforests in eastern Australia, an ecosystem with no documented record of fire.…
The recent bushfires in Australia have attracted worldwide attention. With over 12m hectares burnt so far – roughly the size of England – the bushfires are truly a disaster of global proportions. There has been tragic loss of human lives, people severely injured, livestock killed, homes, buildings and infrastructure destroyed, while the impacts on fores…
Australia’s 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires burnt more than 8 million hectares of vegetation across the south-east of the continent, an event unprecedented in the last 200 years. Here we report the impacts of these fires on vascular plant species and communities. Using a map of the fires generated from remotely sensed hotspot data we show that, acros…
Australia’s unprecedented 2019 – 2020 bushfire season devastated the nation. Across the country, approximately 47 million acres were burned, with 31 million acres primarily in forest and bushland habitats. Tragically, 34 lives were lost and close to 2,700 homes were destroyed.
In January we estimated that 1.25 billion animals may have been killed by th…
Collectively home to more than 1 million people, the Pacific island nations of Fiji and Tonga are frequently threatened by the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. In the aftermath of a disaster, these islands work hard to assess, identify and quantify risks and begin the recovery process.
Fiji and Tonga have taken many efforts to gather info…
An official document formally adopted by UN Member States as the outcome of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, in which countries recognize the need to support and invest in these nations so they can achieve sustainable development.
The paragraphs 51 and 52 recognize the importance of disaster risk reduction and affir…
This short publication responds to calls from AusAID staff for simple, practical guidance on what integration of disaster risk reduction, climate change and the environment may mean for their programs. While there is general consensus that these issues are important for the long‑term success and sustainability of development outcomes, understanding how…
This report provides a review and synthesis of the economic impacts of the 2019-2020 bushfires on agriculture and the wider food system. Of the more than 10 million hectares burnt in south-eastern Australia during the 2019-2020 fire season, around one-quarter was agricultural land. To assess this impact in economic terms, the researchers investigated th…
In the summer of 2019–2020, southern Australia experienced the largest fires on record, detrimentally impacting the habitat of native species, many of which were already threatened by past and current anthropogenic land use. A large-scale restoration effort to improve degraded species habitat would provide fire-affected species with the chance to recove…
The catastrophic impacts of the 2019-2020 mega-fires of eastern and southern Australia received extensive media coverage, with smoke blanketing the major cities of the east coast and surrounding regions for months. Many people seeing the stark images of blackened forest landscapes thought these environments were “completely destroyed” by the bushfires.…