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Research highlights at least six different motivations for perpetrators that commit arson.
Student violence is a response to the devaluing and oppressive environment in boarding schools.
The army may help create a more stable and secure environment in the short term, but this is unlikely to result in sustainable and lasting peace.
The method, using satellite data and other information, could reduce the work of fire forensics teams after bushfires.
The best way to inoculate the public against climate disinformation campaigns is to tell them what’s coming.
We found about 300 suspicious Twitter accounts, which we suspect included a high proportion of bots and trolls pushing the #ArsonEmergency narrative.
Australia devotes countless resources to fighting bushfires, but precious little to examining the main cause - humans.
The fires tearing through the Athens region are not an act of God, but a direct result of corruption and systematic disregard for the law.
Zambia’s president is securing powers to consolidate his political control while generating ‘plausible deniability’ to whether or not he has fatally undermined democracy.
Acts of arson by Kenyan high school students have been characterised as ‘mindless hooliganism’. But research shows that students are actually engaging in purposeful, reasoned political action.
We’ve been burning things for hundreds of thousands of years. Australian Aboriginals practised fire-stick farming to regenerate the soil and drive out animals for hunting. Yet manmade fires not only enable…
Yet again we are seeing tragedy unfold in NSW, where more than 90 fires are currently burning. Yet, as with many issues of profound importance, as a society we seem unable to make the links between conditions…
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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