@article {bnh-8370, title = {Vehicle-related causes of flood fatalities}, journal = {Natural Hazard Science}, year = {2023}, month = {02/2023}, abstract = {

Vehicle-related flood incidents represent a leading cause of flood fatalities, as well as resulting in an additional health system and emergency services burden. A large proportion of these deaths are preventable and represent an area of collaboration across a range of fields, including emergency services, disaster preparedness, floodplain management, public health, and road safety. The nature of the risk is exacerbated by increases in the frequency and severity of flood events in a warming climate and further urbanization.

The nature of vehicle-related flood incidents is multidimensional, consisting of flood hazard, behavioral, vehicle, and road-related factors. Equally, strategies required to reduce the incidence of vehicles entering floodwater must be multidimensional, giving consideration to behavioral, regulatory, structural, and emergency response measures. Such an approach requires the involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders.

}, keywords = {behavior, climate, Drowning, Flood, prevention, regulation, social cognition}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.438}, url = {https://oxfordre.com/naturalhazardscience/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389407-e-438?rskey=eQeJXc}, author = {Andrew Gissing and Kyra Hamilton and Grantley Smith and Amy Peden} } @article {bnh-7472, title = {Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia{\textquoteright}s 2019{\textendash}20 season of mega-fires: A broader perspective}, journal = {Global Change Biology}, volume = {26}, year = {2020}, month = {04/2020}, pages = {pp. 3756-3758}, abstract = {

Climates{\textemdash}especially seasonal and long-term droughts{\textemdash}and fuel loads combine to determine risks of wildfires across much of Australia. Here we illustrate how long-term accumulations of fuel combined with a serious drought to drive the behaviour and extent of recent fires in South-eastern Australia.

This article is a commentary on Nolan et al. 26,\ 1039{\textendash}1041. See also the response to this letter by Bradstock et al. 26,\ e8{\textendash}e9.

}, keywords = {Bushfire, climate, Fire behaviour}, doi = { https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15125}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15125}, author = {Adams, Mark A. and Majid Shadmanroodposhti and Mathias Neumann} } @mastersthesis {bnh-6637, title = {Understanding the nature of abrupt decadal shifts in a changing climate}, year = {2019}, month = {11/2019}, school = {Victoria University}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

Planning for future climate risk tends to incorporate assumptions of smoothly accelerating\ climate change, around which unchanged variability constitutes the risk boundaries. This\ constitutes hypothesis H1 {\textendash} forced warming and natural variability evolve gradually and\ independently and the climate response is trend-like. Against this, there is evidence for H2 {\textendash}\ forced warming interacts with natural variability and the climate response includes abrupt\ steps. Earlier than expected breaching of risk bounds follows from H2.\ 

New automation tools, and post-detection tests find and characterise step-like regime onsets\ in temperatures.\ 

With these tools I show that step-like temperature regime shifts are detectable at all spatial\ scales at the land and ocean surface, and in the vertical temperature structure of the ocean.\ Based on published climate models shifts respond to warming by becoming more intense,\ wider-spread and more frequent. Regimes are regional, differ qualitatively between land and\ ocean, align with natural variability coincident with known bio-physical shifts. Two, circa 1976\ and 1996, align with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, involving rapid vertical ocean\ restructuring. One, 1968 in the Southern Hemisphere ocean does not, and 1986 in the\ Northern Hemisphere reflects atmospheric reorganisation.

H2 is strongly supported by the findings. Step-like warming dominates trends, increasingly so\ at finer scale.

}, keywords = {climate, Climate change, decadal shifts, risk management}, author = {Ricketts, J} }