Savanna Fire Management and Bushfire and Natural Hazard Scenario Planning for North Australia
Author | : Jeremy Russell-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Emergency management |
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Author | : Jeremy Russell-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Emergency management |
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Author | : Jeremy Russell-Smith |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-10-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643099999 |
This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually. Impacts have been particularly severe in the Arnhem Land Plateau, a centre of plant and animal diversity on Indigenous land. Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas documents a remarkable collaboration between Arnhem Land’s traditional landowners and the scientific community to arrest a potentially catastrophic fire-driven decline in the natural and cultural assets of the region – not by excluding fire, but by using it better through restoration of Indigenous control over burning. This multi-disciplinary treatment encompasses the history of fire use in the savannas, the post-settlement changes that altered fire patterns, the personal histories of a small number of people who lived most of their lives on the plateau and, critically, their deep knowledge of fire and how to apply it to care for country. Uniquely, it shows how such knowledge and commitment can be deployed in conjunction with rigorous formal scientific analysis, advanced technology, new cross-cultural institutions and the emerging carbon economy to build partnerships for controlling fire at scales that were, until this demonstration, thought beyond effective intervention.
Author | : Geoffrey Cary |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003-11-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643098542 |
The phenomenon of fire in the Australian landscape traverses many interests and disciplines. At a national level, there is an urgent need for the integration of both the natural and social sciences in the formulation of public policy. With contributions from 30 leading experts, Australia Burning draws together these issues, under the themes: *Ecology and the environment *Fire behaviour and fire regime science *People and property *Policy, institutional arrangements and the legal framework *Indigenous land and fire management The book examines some of the key questions that relate to the ecology, prediction and management of fire, urban planning, law, insurance, and community issues, including indigenous and non-indigenous concerns. It looks at what we need to know to inform public policy, given the present risks and uncertainty, and explores the avenues for closer integration between science, policy and the community.
Author | : Jeremy Russell-Smith |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 064310853X |
In the context of Australia’s developing carbon economy, fire management helps to abate emissions of greenhouse gases and is an important means of generating carbon credits. The vast high-rainfall savannas of northern Australia are one of the world’s most flammable landscapes. Management of fires in this region has the potential to assist with meeting emissions reduction targets, as well as conserving biodiversity and providing employment for Indigenous people in remote parts of Australia’s north. This comprehensive volume brings together recent research from northern Australian savannas to provide an internationally relevant case study for applying greenhouse gas accounting methodologies to the practice of fire management. It provides scientific arguments for enlarging the area of fire-prone land managed for emissions abatement. The book also charts the progress towards development of a savanna fire bio-sequestration methodology. The future of integrated approaches to emissions abatement and bio-sequestration is also discussed.
Author | : Rodd Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Written by a team of northern Australian land management practitioners and researchers, this illustrated book provides the information to managers of pastoral, Aboriginal and conservation lands, to ecologists, students and the general public.
Author | : Ross A. Bradstock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521805919 |
Fire is pivotal to the functioning of ecosystems in Australia, affecting the distribution and abundance of the continent's unique and highly diverse range of plants and animals. Conservation of this natural biodiversity therefore requires a good understanding of scientific processes involved in the action of fire on the landscape. This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of current knowledge in this area and its application in contemporary land management. Central to the discussion is an exploration of the concept of the fire regime and its interactions with biodiversity.
Author | : Ross Andrew Bradstock |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0643104828 |
Leading researchers give an overview of the field of fire ecology in Australia.
Author | : John Handmer |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008-02-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643098771 |
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.
Author | : Mark Adams |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2011-06-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643103473 |
Southern Australia is one of the three most fire-prone areas on Earth. After more than a century of urban growth and valiant efforts to ‘tame’ the bush, recent decades have seen more people moving back onto the fringe or into the middle of this volatile landscape. As this movement has intensified, so has the debate on how to best protect life and property from the ever-present bushfire threat. A long-running drought and a predicted warming climate have ensured that bushfire is a dominant factor in our nation’s long-term planning. Following the tragic Victorian Black Saturday fires in 2009, a much greater urgency now confronts policy makers, land and fire managers and communities living in bushfire areas. This has led to a call for a single, simple answer on fuel reduction burning to reduce the bushfire risk. Burning Issues explains that this is a complex issue without such a simple answer. The book gives an account of the role of fire in Australia’s ecosystems, how we have to accept and live with fire, and how we can manage fire both for safety and for diversity. It aims to change people’s attitudes to fire, and to be influential in encouraging changes in land management by government agencies.