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Displaying 60 of about 84 resultsThis 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 bushfires of the 2019-20 Australian Black Summer fire season saw widespread destruction caused by fires of unprecedented magnitude, duration and intensity. In total, 33 lives were lost, more than 3,000 homes were destroyed, wildlife was decimated, and over 20 million hectares of community and farming land and national parks were burnt. All Australia…
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.…
Impacts and experiences vary among individuals and communities, and support needs to consider that memories of past events can resurface after trauma.
The overall aim of recovery is to:
restore or improve the lives and livelihoods of people within a disaster-affected community
restore or improve the economic, physical, social, cultural and environm…
Journey to recovery describes the collaborative approach being taken across Australia to recover from the devastating 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires. While recovery plans are developed at a state or territory level, the scale of the recent Black Summer bushfires was unprecedented, and recovery is beyond the resources of any one jurisdiction. Such an ext…
This paper demonstrates the harmful effects that social expectations of masculinity can have on coping mechanisms and decision-making. Expectations based on gender have broad implications for families and communities and for the ways in which emergency management personnel and procedures operate.
The findings conclude that constructed ideals of masculi…
This project estimates the impact of four disasters in recent Australian history on income of individuals residing in disaster-hit areas. By defining individuals’ ability to return to their pre-disaster income levels as economic resilience, the paper focuses on the following case studies: The 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires, the 2009 T…
This guide describes the process of the Klamath-Lake Forest Partnership (KLFHP) has used to plan and implement cross-boundary restoration projects to achieve improved forest health conditions on large landscapes scales. It is intended as a model other individuals and communities can modify to meet the needs of their local circumstances.
2019/20 Australia's bushfire season (Black Summer fires) occurred during a period of record-breaking temperatures and extremely low rainfall. To understand the impact of these climatic values we conducted a preliminary analysis of the 2019/20 bushfire season and compared it with the fire seasons between March 2000 and March 2020 in the states of New Sou…
This predominantly qualitative research into long-term disaster resilience identifies what helps and hinders individual and community resilience in disasters. It documents the experiences and wisdom of 56 disaster survivors nine years after the 2009 Black Saturday fires and up to 50 years after earlier fires and floods in Victoria, including the 1983 As…
Human Organization, Winter 2015, Vol. 74, No. 4:
This volume of Human Organization is dedicated to a special issue on applied anthropology of risk, hazards, and disasters. It includes articles on: (i) Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters by A.J. Faas and Roberto E. Barrios; (ii) The Construction of Vulnerability along the Zarumilla River…
This report describes the challenges that many of Australia’s children and young people face as a result of where they live. This report calls for more support for children and young people in Australia before, during and after disasters, and an urgent review of government policies. For children and young people, the consequence of trauma from…
The Federal Government helps states and localities to prepare for disasters by providing financial and technical assistance for emergency planning and training, conducting exercises of and building and maintaining an emergency management infrastructure. In a catastrophic or major disaster incident, the array of programs described in this guide may be ac…
This book is the latest in a series of volumes addressing natural disasters, and how their impact can be reduced by effective capacity building and prevention strategies.
A fully illustrated, 200-page book, Risk Wise offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in light of the increasing threat of natural dis…