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Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 24-04-2017
DOI: 10.5194/NHESS-17-595-2017
Abstract: Abstract. This article investigates the implementation of disaster risk reduction education for children in Indonesia. In the last decade, education programmes related to this subject have been promoted as capable of reducing disaster losses and increasing resilience, based on several studies that have identified positive outcomes. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate and address any potential challenges that might impede their success. The article uses a case study in Jakarta, a rapidly growing megacity that is highly prone to disasters and natural hazards, especially floods and fires, to explore the scaling up and sustainability of disaster risk reduction in Indonesian schools. Based on previous studies, a new approach was developed for evaluating the implementation of education programmes related to these subjects. This study captured the perspectives of children, school personnel, and non-governmental organisations on the challenges of scaling up the implementation of disaster risk reduction education in schools. The study revealed seven key issues and suggests several policy recommendations to move forward. These key issues may also be apparent in many other developing and developed countries, and the suggested recommendations may well be applicable beyond Indonesia.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1071/WF12010
Abstract: On Saturday 7 February 2009, 173 people lost their lives and more than 2000 houses were destroyed in bushfires (wildfires) in the Australian State of Victoria. The scale of life and property loss raised fundamental questions about community bushfire safety in Australia, in particular the appropriateness of the ‘Prepare, stay and defend or leave early’ policy. This paper presents findings from research undertaken as part of the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre’s (CRC) ‘2009 Victorian Bushfires Research Taskforce’. The research examined factors influencing patterns of life and property loss and survival across the fires through mail surveys (n=1314) of fire affected households. Just over half of the respondents (53%) stayed to defend their homes and properties, whereas the remainder left before or when the fires arrived (43%) or sheltered in a house, structure, vehicle, or outside (4%). Results reveal a survival rate of 77% for houses that were defended by one or more household members, compared to 44% for unattended houses. The paper identifies inadequate planning and preparedness and the tendency for people to wait until they are directly threatened before taking action as major factors leading to late evacuation, failed defence and passive shelter.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JFR3.12616
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 26-10-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-07-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Date: 2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-03-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 30-10-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1038/503469A
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 17-12-2021
DOI: 10.3390/FIRE4040097
Abstract: The 2019–20 Australian fire season was heralded as emblematic of the catastrophic harm wrought by climate change. Similarly extreme wildfire seasons have occurred across the globe in recent years. Here, we apply a pyrogeographic lens to the recent Australian fires to examine the range of causes, impacts and responses. We find that the extensive area burnt was due to extreme climatic circumstances. However, antecedent hazard reduction burns (prescribed burns with the aim of reducing fuel loads) were effective in reducing fire severity and house loss, but their effectiveness declined under extreme weather conditions. Impacts were disproportionately borne by socially disadvantaged regional communities. Urban populations were also impacted through prolonged smoke exposure. The fires produced large carbon emissions, burnt fire-sensitive ecosystems and exposed large areas to the risk of bio ersity decline by being too frequently burnt in the future. We argue that the rate of change in fire risk delivered by climate change is outstripping the capacity of our ecological and social systems to adapt. A multi-lateral approach is required to mitigate future fire risk, with an emphasis on reducing the vulnerability of people through a reinvigoration of community-level capacity for targeted actions to complement mainstream fire management capacity.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-10-2014
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1144/SP305.14
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-07-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-10-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 02-02-2016
Abstract: Abstract. This article investigates the implementation of disaster risk reduction education for children in Indonesia. In the last decade, education programs related to this subject have been promoted as capable of reducing disaster losses and increasing resilience, based on several studies that have identified positive outcomes. However, most of these studies we re undertaken in developed countries. The article uses a case study in Jakarta, a rapidly growing megacity that is highly prone to disasters and natural hazards, especially floods and fires, to explore the scaling-up and sustainability of disaster risk reduction in Indonesian schools. Based on previous studies, a new approach was developed for evaluating the implementation of education programs related to these subjects. This study captured the perspectives of children, school personnel, and non-governmental organisations on the challenges of scaling-up the implementation of disaster risk reduction education in schools. The study revealed seven key issues and suggests several policy recommendations to move forward. These key issues may also be apparent in many other developing and developed countries, and the suggested recommendations may well be applicable beyond Indonesia.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-12-2022
Abstract: In 2019/20 major bushfires devastated Australia’s East Coast. Shortly afterward the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. Older people are disproportionately affected by disasters and are at high risk from respiratory pandemics. However, little is known about how these events impact on older peoples’ health and well-being and engagement with services such as primary care. To explore the health impacts of the 2019/20 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic on older Australians' health and well-being. One hundred and fifty-five people aged over 65 years living in South-eastern New South Wales, Australia participated in an online survey. The survey measured the impacts of the bushfires and COVID-19 on physical and mental health and the capacity of older people to manage these impacts. Most respondents felt that the bushfires caused them to feel anxious/worried (86.2%) and negatively affected their physical (59.9%) and mental (57.2%) health. While many participants had similar feelings about COVID-19, significantly fewer felt these physical and mental health impacts than from the bushfires. A significantly greater perceived level of impact was observed for females and those with health problems. More respondents described negative mental health than physical health effects. Those who felt more impacted by the events had lower levels of resilience, social connection and support, and self-rated health. The health impacts identified in this study represent an opportunity for primary care to intervene to both ensure that people with support needs are identified and provided timely support and that older people are prepared for future disasters.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-10-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Date: 10-2010
Abstract: This study reevaluates the history of building damage and loss of life due to bushfire (wildfire) in Australia since 1925 in light of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria in which 173 people lost their lives and 2298 homes were destroyed along with many other structures. Historical records are normalized to estimate building damage and fatalities had events occurred under the societal conditions of 2008/09. There are relationships between normalized building damage and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean dipole phenomena, but there is no discernable evidence that the normalized data are being influenced by climatic change due to the emission of greenhouse gases. The 2009 Black Saturday fires rank second in terms of normalized fatalities and fourth in terms of normalized building damage. The public safety concern is that, of the 10 years with the highest normalized building damage, the 2008/09 bushfire season ranks third, behind the 1925/26 and 1938/39 seasons, in terms of the ratio of normalized fatalities to building damage. A feature of the building damage in the 2009 Black Saturday fires in some of the most affected towns—Marysville and Kinglake—is the large proportion of buildings destroyed either within bushland or at very small distances from it (& m). Land use planning policies in bushfire-prone parts of this country that allow such development increase the risk that bushfires pose to the public and the built environment.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-11-2012
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-02-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-10-2013
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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