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Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates
Title | Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Authors | May, D |
Book Title | Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe |
Chapter | 7 |
Edition | 1 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
City | Melbourne |
ISBN Number | 978-981-15-4381-4 |
Keywords | Australia, disaster impacts, disasters, history, new zealand |
Abstract | Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines. |
URL | https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811543814#aboutBook |
DOI | 10.1007/978-981-15-4382-1 |
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