With the ongoing devastation of the Australian bush fires filling the news
we are providing several recommended starting points to finding academic quality information.
Geoscience Australia provides basic facts on natural hazards in Australia and the work which it does to protect
The Bureau of Meterology has facts about bush fires and the weather
It has links to current fire danger warnings.
Australian central and regional governments also have air quality indexes
https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alert-bushfires-and-smoke
the Conversation blog provides lists and summaries of key resources and discussion.
How common are bush fire disasters?
Find out by searching the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub which has open source authoritative reports. It also includes case studies of good practice. and a disaster map of historic incidents.
In 2018 it published this report on the economic costs of natural disasters to Australia
The Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC is a research organisation. Its website has comment and academic papers
A catalogue of 300 inquiries and reviews relating to emergency management/natural hazards across all jurisdictions in Australia between 1886 and 2017.
the news and blogs section has discussion of the causes and handling of the crisis
The Bushfire and Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Centre
Are bushfires linked to climate change?
The Climate Council has issued a paper This is not normal
Australia Institute also has discussion
NSW government website has some links to Australian federal and regional government papers.
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