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fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

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Integrated urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Biblio	save (2.41 MB)	fire, mitigation, risk analysis
An evaluation of youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Biblio	save (3.77 MB)	fire
Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
Improvement of drag model for non-burning firebrand transport in Fire Dynamics Simulator	Biblio		fire, modelling
Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south west of Western Australia	Biblio	save (207.03 KB)	economics, fire, prescribed burning
Investigation of firebrand production during prescribed fires conducted in a pine forest	Biblio		fire, fire weather, modelling
Literature review: modelling and simulation of flow over tree canopies	Biblio	save (943.19 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread	Biblio		fire, modelling, physics
Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, response
Modeling Vorticity-Driven Wildfire Behavior Using Near-Field Techniques	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	fire, modelling, physics
Modelling emissions from prescribed burning using FULLCAM	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Biblio	save (805.45 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Carbon loss from planned fires in southeastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction
Geographic Patterns of Fire Severity Following an Extreme Eucalyptus Forest Fire in Southern Australia: 2013 Forcett-Dunalley Fire	Biblio	save (8 MB)	fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Continental-scale prediction of live fuel moisture content using soil moisture information	Biblio		fire, fuel reduction, land management
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat	Biblio		fire, modelling
Simulating boundary-layer rolls with a numerical weather prediction model	Biblio		fire, modelling
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	Biblio	save (1.35 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning	Biblio		fire, fire severity, remote sensing
The Unquantified Risk of Post-Fire Metal Concentration in Soil: a Review	Biblio		environments, fire, soil moisture
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (2.24 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour - final project report	Biblio	save (3.32 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
Performance of fire detection algorithms using himawari-8	Biblio	save (1.27 MB)	emergency management, fire, fire weather
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes	Biblio	save (11.45 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
Comparison of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture data sets across Australia	Biblio		fire, flood, remote sensing
A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design	Biblio	save (3.78 MB)	engineering, fire, resilience
Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Cultural burning and public sector practice in the Australian Capital Territory	Biblio		fire, indigenous communities, land management
Knowing wildfire risk: Scientific interactions with risk mitigation policy and practice in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, policy
Fighting fires and fatigue: sleep, physical activity, and physical task performance	Biblio	save (20.46 MB)	fire
Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Effects of prescribed fire and post-fire rainfall on mercury mobilization and subsequent contamination assessment in a legacy mine site in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning
Terrestrial Image-Based Point Clouds for Mapping Near-Ground Vegetation Structure: Potential and Limitations	Biblio	save (7.72 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, land management
Navigating Uncertainty: a qualitative study of resident involvement in the 2013 Forcett Tasmania bushfire disaster	Biblio	save (3.49 MB)	fire, fire impacts, recovery
Experiences with the global impacts of climate change	Biblio	save (1.26 MB)	climate change, fire, fire impacts
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRFs): utilities for WRF assessment and communication - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity