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September

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Keeping Your Animals Safe in an Emergency (Blue Mountains)
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Keeping Your Animals Safe in an Emergency (Hawkesbury-Nepean region)
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Emergency warning messages: do colours and icons improve community readiness to act?
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Emergency warning messages: encouraging readiness to act
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Emergency warning messages: how do community members comprehend them?
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On the frontline: the roles of pharmacists in disasters
Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
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Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
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Enabling sustainable volunteering - leading volunteers young and old: research study
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2020 Dr Laurie Hammond Oration - Dr Alan Finkel, Chief Scientist of Australia
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Young volunteers needed for new mental health survey
The latest CRC research is available online now.
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New online - September 2020
A forum discussion at Queensland University of Technology for the International Day of Disaster Reduction.
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Let’s talk about reducing disaster risk
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Animal guides informed by research
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Ideas shared on France–Australia bushfire science
The community regulary hears about resilience through their local fire agency. Photo: Country Fire Authority
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Resilience research central to blueprint
Gondwana rainforest, New England National Park NSW. Photo: Tatters Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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PhD chance to assess temperate rainforest community resilience
Kangaroo Island estuary. Photo: Patrick Reis Santos
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New study is investigating how bushfires affect estuaries on Kangaroo Island
Dr Alan Finkel AO, Australia's Chief Scientist
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Natural hazards science is a sound investment for Australia: Chief Scientist
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
Australian and French researchers sharing their findings at the workshop.
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International engagement – why does it matter?
Sarah Mizzi at Melbourne's International Women's Day event for emergency services in 2019.
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Returning to work from mat leave
Photo: Bigstock Photo Library
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Valuing each other - why diversity and inclusion matters
NSW RFS Schools Program. Photo: Ben Shepherd, NSW RFS
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More bushfires, less volcanoes: young Australians need to learn about more relevant disasters
Forest fire in Victoria. Photo: CFA.
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Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections
Hazard reduction burn in Victoria by CFA. Photo credit: Sarah Dickson-Hoyle.
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A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades
Savanna grasslands fire. Photo credit: Tina Holt, Bushfires NT.
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Seasonal fine fuel and coarse woody debris dynamics in north Australian savannas
Wind and rain hazards. Photo: Harald Richter.
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Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone – East Coast Lows: annual report 2019-2020
Damage due to Cyclone Debbie. Photo: Cyclone Testing Station
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Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: annual report 2019-2020
Approach to a field site in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Source: D Parnell.
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Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes: annual report 2019-2020
Victoria floods 2011
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Compound natural disasters in Australia: a historical analysis
Animal Evac NZ searching for wildlife at the request of the land owner Black Summer Fires 2020. Photo credit: Steve Glassey.
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Legal Complexities of Entry, Rescue, Seizure and Disposal of Disaster-Affected Companion Animals in New Zealand
Cover photo used with the permission of the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Western Australia, Photographer: Evan Collis
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A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design
Lower estuary in Stun’Sail Boom and surrounding burnt dunes. Photo: Patrick Reis Santos
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Effects of the January 2020 bushfires on estuarine systems of Kangaroo Island: post event field data collection
Photo: Bigstock Photo Library
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Diversity and inclusion framework for emergency management policy and practice

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