Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Shallow Fire Literacy Hinders Robust Fire Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Debates	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, prescribed burning
	Determining firebrand generation rate using physics-based modelling from experimental studies through inverse analysis	Biblio	save (8.12 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
	Tympanic Temperature to Predict Core Temperatures of Firefighters Report	Biblio	save (690.93 KB)	fire, response
	Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Modelling	Biblio	save (563.46 KB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
	Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers	Biblio		communication, fire, recovery
	Lessons learned from a multidisciplinary investigation into the Waroona fire	Biblio	save (892.05 KB)	fire, fire impacts, scenario analysis
	Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
	Estimation of forest surface fuel load using airborne LiDAR data	Biblio	save (352.52 KB)	fire, modelling
	Household preparedness for bushfires: the role of residents' engagement with information sources	Biblio	save (1.61 MB)	communication, fire, preparedness
	Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017	Biblio		climate change, fire, fire weather
	Sheltering practices during bushfire	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, fire, policy
	Adaptive prescribed burning in Australia for the early 21st Century – context, status, challenges	Biblio	save (295.2 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
	Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
	Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (2.18 MB)	fire
	Mesoscale features related to the Blue Mountains fires of 17 October 2013 revealed by high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modelling	Biblio		fire, fire weather, forecasting
	Understanding Post-Fire Fuel Dynamics using Burnt Permanent Forest Plots Report	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	fire, fire impacts, land management
	Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies	Biblio		fire, response
	Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Biblio	save (6.95 MB)	fire, fire impacts, risk management
	You own the fuel but who owns the fire?	Biblio	save (214.41 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, policy
	Disaster landscape attribution: annual report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Physics-based modelling of junction fires: Parametric study	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
	Australia's future national heatwave forecast and warning service: operational considerations.	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	communities, fire, heat transfer
	Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate	Biblio		communities, fire, vulnerability
	What are the drivers of dangerous fires in Mediterranean France?	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, fire weather
	Investigating the activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Biblio	save (5.29 MB)	fire, local knowledge, volunteering
	Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
	A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Sleeping at work: not all about location, location, location	Biblio		fire
15 Oct 2015	Insights from South Korea	Blog		fire
07 Oct 2020	Wildfire engineering – a new perspective for fire service operations and rural urban interface design	Blog		engineering, fire, resilience
23 Aug 2019	Our new global plant water status database may prevent you from needing to fieldwork. What will you miss?	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire severity
27 Mar 2020	I’ve spent 14 years on bushfire front lines and seen courage in the face of death	Blog		fire, firefighter, volunteering
19 Mar 2019	Learning the media game	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
14 Feb 2019	Still Smouldering: reflections on the symposium	Blog		communities, fire, fire impacts
18 Aug 2020	Towards a new disaster research centre	Blog		emergency management, fire, multi-hazard
29 Jan 2021	How heatwaves and drought combine to produce the perfect firestorm	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
15 Mar 2016	Communities of interest	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire
24 Jan 2019	Human dimensions and funding hopes	Blog		capability, fire
18 Dec 2019	As bushfires intensify, we need to acknowledge the strain on our volunteers	Blog		fire, fire impacts, volunteering