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Three quarters of WA's Stirling Ranges national park now experience fire cycles twice as frequent as species recovery rates.
How fast can an animal run? How intense was the fire? Picking which species to help after a bushfire tragedy is no easy task.
We've set up a single point of contact for foreign disasters, we could do if for Australian disasters as well.
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
GDP is well suited to many things, but not to measuring the impact of disasters.
Employers obligations are set out clearly. What's important is what they "know or reasonably ought to know".
Plugging ventilation holes in walls helps, but there are dangers.
It's worth thinking carefully about how to give, to ensure you're not wasting your contribution or inadvertently making things worse.
As this horrific summer of disaster continues to unfold in coming weeks, we need to overhaul our emergency management plan.
We escaped through blackened landscapes where sheep wandered paddocks with the wool burnt off their backs. My three-year-old son, sensing the mood, asked why his dad and I were so quiet.
Sending holidaymakers directly into forests and national parks right in the middle of peak bushfire season is madness.
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David Bowman is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
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Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate research scientist, University of Adelaide
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Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer/ARC DECRA Fellow, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate, Flinders University
