Total cost of fire in Australia

Ashe, Brian; McAneney, K. John; Pitman, A. J.

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“…The increasing frequency, for example, of bushfires, emphasises the urgent need to engage more effectively with local communities (Daniel et al 2007;Ashe et al 2009;Eriksen & Prior in press). The recent tragic bushfires in Australia, North America and Europe demonstrate a need not just to make local communities more aware of natural hazards such as bushfire but also a need to enable communities and individual landholders to take greater responsibility for their own safety through awareness, preparedness and response.…”

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Trial by Fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research

Eriksen

Gill

Bradstock

2011

Australian Geographer

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This paper considers the issues of research 'relevance' and 'use' to reflect upon a cultural geography research project on bushfire that did not begin with any specific aim of being useful to policy makers but which has garnered considerable and ongoing interest from a broad audience. It provides an example of how the integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods and data can enhance research into cultural aspects of natural hazards whilst simultaneously playing a key role in ensuring that the research results are of interest to a wide range of groups. Using a mixed-methods research approach was found to provide insight into complex factors that influence attitudes and actions towards bushfire amongst diverse landholders in ruralÁurban interface areas in south-east Australia. We argue that mixed-methods research is a powerful tool in building and enhancing a cultural geography that has policy relevance, retains analytical depth, and is acceptable to risk managers. The ability of cultural geography through mixedmethods research to illuminate how socio-cultural processes are central to environmental attitudes and preparedness behaviour has direct relevance to recent international discussions of how to manage the vulnerability of the growing number of people living in bushfire-prone ruralÁurban interface areas.

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Section: The Place Of Social Science In Natural Hazards Researchmentioning

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Trial by Fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research

Eriksen

Gill

Bradstock

2011

Australian Geographer

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“…Large losses from industrial and commercial complexes such as the Longford gas explosion in Victoria in 2002 and, more recently, the Apache pipeline fire in Western Australia in 2008 represent major financial impacts. While much debate takes place about fire, particularly bushfire, very little of this is informed by a true understanding of its cost to the nation, a cost which Ashe, McAneney, and Pitman (2009) in the first ever estimate put at about AUD$12,000 million or 1.3% of gross domestic product (GDP). This sum invites the question as to whether or not the current investment in fire prevention and response measures is optimal.…”

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“…This sum invites the question as to whether or not the current investment in fire prevention and response measures is optimal. Ashe, McAneney, and Pitman (2009) showed that of the total cost of fire, nearly 86% was accounted for by investments in fire safety and mitigation (termed costs in anticipation) and maintaining fire services (costs in response) and only *Corresponding author. Email: brian.ashe@students.mq.edu.au about 14% could be attributed to the costs of dealing with the consequences of fire (Appendix 1 provides a breakdown of these cost categories).…”

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Is the allocation of resources towards mitigation and response to fire in Australia optimal?

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McAneney²,

Pitman³

2011

Journal of Risk Research

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“…The economic losses per year in the United States were about $2,000-$3,500 million in the few last years; for Spain, Portugal and Greece losses were in between $1,700 and $2,000 million [1]. In Australia, the loss per year is approximately $6,625 million, which is about 1.15% of the country's Gross Domestic Product [2]. Global climate change will aggravate the problem because of the extension of drought periods [3].…”

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Towards Improved Airborne Fire Detection Systems Using Beetle Inspired Infrared Detection and Fire Searching Strategies

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Every year forest fires cause severe financial losses in many countries of the world. Additionally, lives of humans as well as of countless animals are often lost. Due to global warming, the problem of wildfires is getting out of control; hence, the burning of thousands of hectares is obviously increasing. Most important, therefore, is the early detection of an emerging fire before its intensity becomes too high. More than ever, a need for early warning systems capable of detecting small fires from distances as large as possible exists. A look to nature shows that pyrophilous "fire beetles" of the genus Melanophila can be regarded as natural airborne fire detection systems because their larvae can only develop in the wood of fire-killed trees. There is evidence that Melanophila beetles can detect large fires from distances of more than 100 km by visual and infrared cues. In a biomimetic approach, a concept has been developed to use the surveying strategy of the "fire beetles" for the reliable detection of a smoke plume of a fire from large distances by means of a basal infrared emission zone. Future infrared sensors necessary for this ability are also inspired by the natural infrared receptors of Melanophila beetles.

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Total cost of fire in Australia

Cited by 68 publications

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Trial by Fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research

Trial by Fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research

Is the allocation of resources towards mitigation and response to fire in Australia optimal?

Towards Improved Airborne Fire Detection Systems Using Beetle Inspired Infrared Detection and Fire Searching Strategies

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