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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social and Cultural Geography | Human Geography | Human Geography not elsewhere classified |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Natural Hazards not elsewhere classified | Natural Hazards in Urban and Industrial Environments
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Publications
Gendered responses to the 2009 B lack S aturday bushfires in V ictoria, A ustralia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-11-2015
Fire
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
Wildfire survival plans in theory and practice
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1071/WF14193
Abstract: Bushfire survival plans are a valuable tool for residents living in fire-prone landscapes. Plans include assigning trigger points for action, roles for all household members, and alternate approaches should the original plan fail. Fire agencies advocate that residents write, practise and discuss these plans before the fire season. In this study we use a multiple-methods approach to examine the theoretical and actual application of bushfire survival plans in south-east Australia. First, we review agency advice regarding survival plans to determine the consistency, clarity and specificity of the advice. Second, an online survey of residents examines the relationships between types of plans, with the planned action during a wildfire, gender and past experience with fire. Finally, semi-structured interviews with residents who have experienced wildfire examine the reality of decision-making, triggers used for actions and the role of survival plans. The study concludes that: a) fire agencies provide clear and concise information around survival plans despite some variation between states b) preparation of survival plans is limited by the same range of factors that limit the extent of overall wildfire preparedness and c) without a written, discussed and practised plan, decision-making during a wildfire may be impaired with potentially fatal consequences.
Gendered Risk Engagement: Challenging the Embedded Vulnerability, Social Norms and Power Relations in Conventional A ustralian Bushfire Education
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-11-2013
Into the firing line: civilian ingress during the 2013 “Red October” bushfires, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-09-2015
The atlas of women in the world – By Joni Seager
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2012
Gendered Dynamics of Wildland Firefighting in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-04-2016
Women in leadership: contextual dynamics and boundaries
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
How much does it cost residents to prepare their property for wildfire?
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2016
Engaging with the home-in-ruins: memory, temporality and the unmaking of home after fire
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-06-2023
Leadership in Mountain and Wildland Professions in Canada
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2022
Wildfires in the Atomic Age: Mitigating the Risk of Radioactive Smoke
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 26-12-2021
DOI: 10.3390/FIRE5010002
Abstract: This Perspective highlights the lingering consequences of nuclear disasters by examining the risks posed by wildfires that rerelease radioactive fallout originally deposited into the environment by accidents at nuclear power plants or testing of nuclear weapons. Such wildfires produce uncontainable, airborne, and hazardous smoke, which potentially carries radioactive material, thus becoming the specter of the original disaster. As wildfires occur more frequently with climate change and land use changes, nuclear wildfires present a pressing yet little discussed problem among wildfire management and fire scholars. The problem requires urgent attention due to the risks it poses to the health and wellbeing of wildland firefighters, land stewards, and smoke-impacted communities. This Perspective explains the problem, outlines future research directions, suggests potential solutions, and underlines the broader benefits of mitigating the risks.
Research Ethics, Trauma and Self-care: reflections on disaster geographies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-09-2017
When insurance and goodwill are not enough: Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) ratings, risk calculations and disaster resilience in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-11-2020
Urban and rural interdependencies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-05-2022
Untangling insurance, rebuilding, and wellbeing in bushfire recovery
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-11-2020
Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-07-2016
Landscape Preferences, Amenity, and Bushfire Risk in New South Wales, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-05-2015
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-015-0525-X
Abstract: This paper examines landscape preferences of residents in amenity-rich bushfire-prone landscapes in New South Wales, Australia. Insights are provided into vegetation preferences in areas where properties neighbor large areas of native vegetation, such as national parks, or exist within a matrix of cleared and vegetated private and public land. In such areas, managing fuel loads in the proximity of houses is likely to reduce the risk of house loss and damage. Preferences for vegetation appearance and structure were related to varying fuel loads, particularly the density of understorey vegetation and larger trees. The study adopted a qualitative visual research approach, which used ranking and photo-elicitation as part of a broader interview. A visual approach aids in focusing on outcomes of fuel management interventions, for ex le, by using the same photo scenes to firstly derive residents' perceptions of amenity and secondly, residents' perceptions of bushfire risk. The results are consistent with existing research on landscape preferences residents tend to prefer relatively open woodland or forest landscapes with good visual and physical access but with elements that provoke their interest. Overall, residents' landscape preferences were found to be consistent with vegetation management that reduces bushfire risk to houses. The terms in which preferences were expressed provide scope for agency engagement with residents in order to facilitate management that meets amenity and hazard reduction goals on private land.
House and contents underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Negotiating adversity with humour: A case study of wildland firefighter women
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Advancing disaster geographies: From marginalisation to inclusion of gender and sexual minorities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-09-2022
DOI: 10.1111/GEC3.12664
Abstract: Despite growing awareness and research into experiences of gender and sexual minorities – also known as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual and other identities (LGBTQIA+) – their needs and capacities are often overlooked in crisis response and disaster risk reduction. LGBTQIA+ peoples' vulnerability is shaped by social marginalisation, discrimination, and stigma, and exacerbated by dominant value systems and Western heteronormative framings of disaster experiences. We present a review of scholarship into gender and sexual minorities and disasters. We summarise extant knowledge and identify areas for growth in the field of disaster geographies. We argue that progress requires increased conceptual and methodological focus on ersity and the intersectional factors that exacerbate marginality, more inclusive knowledge production pathways focussed on risk reduction, and establishing methods for LGBTQIA+ people to be involved in research about them. More critical and inclusive research will not only aid progress in disaster geographies it will also provide vital evidence with which to lobby policymakers and disaster management to pay closer attention to ersity and inclusion. By moving beyond normativity, cisgender‐heterosexual assumptions, and homogenising identity labels, we can begin to address social, cultural, and political factors that determine spatial inequalities, marginalisation, and disaster vulnerability for gender and sexual minorities.
The art of learning: wildfire, amenity migration and local environmental knowledge
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1071/WF10018
Abstract: Communicating the need to prepare well in advance of the wildfire season is a strategic priority for wildfire management agencies worldwide. However, there is considerable evidence to suggest that although these agencies invest significant effort towards this objective in the lead up to each wildfire season, landholders in at-risk locations often remain under-prepared. One reason for the poor translation of risk information materials into actual preparation may be attributed to the ersity of people now inhabiting wildfire-prone locations in peri-urban landscapes. These people hold widely varying experiences, beliefs, attitudes and values relating to wildfire, which influence their understanding and interpretation of risk messages – doing so within the constraints of their in idual contexts. This paper examines the ersity of types of local environmental knowledge (LEK) present within wildfire-prone landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in south-east Australia. It investigates the ways people learn and form LEK of wildfire, and how this affects the ability of at-risk in iduals to interpret and act on risk communication messages. We propose a practical framework that complements existing risk education mechanisms with engagement and interaction techniques (agency–community and within community) that can utilise LEK most effectively and facilitate improved community-wide learning about wildfire and wildfire preparedness.
Engaging with the (Un)familiar: Field Teaching in a Multi-Campus Teaching Environment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2012
Coping, caring and believing: The embodied work of disaster recovery workers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Retrofitting for wildfire resilience: What is the cost?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
The relevance of mindfulness practice for trauma-exposed disaster researchers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk ReductionF.Krüger, G.Bankoff, T.Cannon, B.Orlowski and E.L.F.Shipper. Routledge, London and New York, 2015, xv + 282 pp, ISBN 9
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2016
The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
Introducing the “Fire Social Science” Section of the Journal Fire
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 30-09-2022
DOI: 10.3390/FIRE5050157
Abstract: Climate change is often espoused in public debates as being the main culprit of the increasing frequency, scale, and intensity of wildfires around the world [...]
Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, plants, and people
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Posttraumatische Fehlstellungen und Pseudarthrosen des proximalen Humerus
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-06-2015
DOI: 10.1007/S00113-015-0032-9
Abstract: According to the future demographic trends the incidence of proximal humeral fractures and subsequent posttraumatic malunions and nonunions of the proximal humerus are expected to substantially increase. This article reviews the indications, techniques and outcomes of corrective osteotomy for the treatment of posttraumatic nounions and malunions of the proximal humerus. A selective literature search was performed and personal surgical experiences are reported. Malunions of the proximal humerus can occur after both surgical and conservative management of fractures. Due to the complex anatomy of the proximal humerus, malunions have to be systematically assessed regarding epiphyseal and metaphyseal malpositioning. Furthermore, the objective anatomical disorder has to be completely correlated with the subjective patient complaints. The associated soft tissue structures, such as the glenohumeral joint capsule and ligaments, long head of the biceps tendon, rotator cuff and muscles inserting in the metaphysis, can independently cause discomfort to the patient and need to be meticulously identified as such. A variety of corrective surgical strategies are available, which are indicated depending on the location and extent of the malunion. The depicted single-cut osteotomy technique represents an elegant therapeutic option for multidimensional deformities of the proximal humerus. Nonunions of the proximal humerus can usually be successfully managed with autologous cancellous bone grafting and locking plate osteosynthesis.
Rethinking the interplay between affluence and vulnerability to aid climate change adaptive capacity
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S10584-020-02819-X
Abstract: Affluence and vulnerability are often seen as opposite sides of a coin—with affluence generally understood as reducing forms of vulnerability through increased resilience and adaptive capacity. However, in the context of climate change and an increase in associated hazards and disasters, we suggest the need to re-examine this dynamic relationship—a complex association we define here as the Affluence–Vulnerability Interface (AVI). We review research in different national contexts to show how a more nuanced understanding of the AVI can (a) problematize the notion that increasing material affluence necessarily has a mitigating influence on social vulnerability, (b) extend our analysis of social vulnerability beyond low-income regions to include affluent contexts and (c) improve our understanding of how psychosocial characteristics influence people’s vulnerability. Finally, we briefly outline three methodological approaches that we believe will assist future engagement with the AVI.
Nuclear Waste
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
Dilemmas, decision‐making, and disasters: Emotions of parenting, safety, and rebuilding in bushfire recovery
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12696
Abstract: Increasing numbers of households are impacted by disasters due to population growth, increasing development in higher risk areas, and climate change. While emergency management in Australia aims to reduce quantifiable losses, lived disaster and recovery experiences are relatively mute, with implications for mitigation and post‐disaster support. This paper draws on findings from a research project that set out to examine the role of insurance in household recovery after the 2013 Blue Mountains bushfires in New South Wales. Among the 19 interview participants, prioritisation of the needs of children was found to hinder personal recovery. Drawing on this key finding, this paper focuses on parents' emotion work and emotions surrounding home. Innate desires to provide good care monopolised parents' emotions and emotional outlets, as they worked to conceal threats and (re)establish a sense of normalcy. Emotion work drained parents, as did threats to, and the loss of, “home” created through “dwelling.” When homes burnt, so too did memories of children embodied in that home – memories that had permeated the material space. This sense of loss intensified when informing children about losses – an act that breached parents' protective instincts and necessitated additional emotional care. Emotions escalated as capacities for care were challenged or eroded in the absence of home contents that normally would have anchored daily routines and provided stability. Replacing such items dominated parents' recovery efforts – efforts encumbered by competing recovery demands, yet facilitated to some degree by insurance safety‐nets. These emotions impacted parents' mental and physical wellbeing in the four years that separated the bushfires and the interviews. While there is considerable literature outlining parents' role in lessening disaster impacts on children, few studies examine parents' capacity to do so. In addressing this gap, this paper highlights avenues to improve psychosocial aspects of disaster recovery.
The Affluence–Vulnerability Interface: Intersecting scales of risk, privilege and disaster
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-09-2016
Abstract: This paper examines vulnerability in the context of affluence and privilege. It focuses on the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm in California, USA to examine long-term lived experiences of the disaster. Vulnerability is typically understood as a condition besetting poor and marginalized communities. Frequently ignored in these discussions are the experiences of those who live in more affluent areas. This paper seeks to more closely explain vulnerability at its interface with affluence. The aim is to challenge uncritical explanations of vulnerability. We also offer alternative ways of conceptualizing vulnerability as a material condition and social construct that acknowledges broader cultural, ecological, and economic conditions, which may offset, maintain or deepen true risk exposure. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents and emergency service managers, the paper presents a suite of vulnerability categories that intersect to create two concomitant and competing conditions. First, vulnerability is variegated between households within communities, including those in more affluent areas. Second, household vulnerability is collectively altered, and oftentimes reduced, by the broader affluent community within which in idual households reside. By paying closer attention to the Affluence–Vulnerability Interface the paper reveals a recursive process, which is significant in the context of building more disaster resilient communities.
An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from Response and Recovery to Mitigation for an Insurable Future
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-04-2019
Wildfire preparedness, community cohesion and social-ecological systems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Making cyber security more resilient: adding social considerations to technological fixes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2023
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-02-2015
Seeking Safe Refuge in Regional Australia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2022
Defining adequate means of residents to prepare property for protection from wildfire
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Defensive Actions and People Preparedness
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
The wildfire within: gender, leadership and wildland fire culture
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/WF17150
Abstract: This article examines findings from a 2016 study on gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS), Canada. The study utilised action research to facilitate an in-depth conversation among wildland firefighters about gender and leadership, and to explore participant-derived actions steps within the BCWS towards a perceived ideal future(s). The study found widespread occurrences of gender discrimination in the day-to-day practice of leadership, and that gender made a difference for wildland firefighters’ experiences of normative workplace culture. In their practice of leadership, participants described a trade-off between gender ersity and excellence. The article concludes that the practice of leadership within wildland fire must include open dialogue about, and strategic engagement with, gendered cultural norms within the workplace in order to dispel myths and latent beliefs, and support what firefighters in this study defined as ‘excellent leadership’.
Examining perceptions of luck in post-bushfire sense-making in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Fire, water and everyday life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
The Retention, Revival, and Subjugation of Indigenous Fire Knowledge through Agency Fire Fighting in Eastern Australia and California
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-07-2014
Between absence and presence
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-06-2022
Defining the importance of mental preparedness for risk communication and residents well-prepared for wildfire
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Bushfire and everyday life: Examining the awareness-action 'gap' in changing rural landscapes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Trial by fire: Natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
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SOAS University Of London
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King's College London, University Of London
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Related Funding Activities
Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170100096
Start Date: 05-2017
End Date: 12-2021
Amount: $327,451.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100242
Start Date: 05-2015
End Date: 09-2019
Amount: $353,773.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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