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Climate Criminologist & Senior Instructor/Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University

Regrowth is beginning, but the intangible costs will linger for decades if not generations. Joel Carrett/AAP

January 17, 2020

With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia’s costliest natural disaster

Paul Read, Monash University and Richard Denniss, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Estimates of the cost of Victoria’s 2009 Black Saturday fires provide a staring point for calculating the much bigger cost of these ones.

It will take social change to prevent people deliberately lighting bushfires. AAP Image/NSW Rural Fire Service, Barry Ballard

January 9, 2013

Bushfire arson: prevention is the cure

Janet Stanley, Monash University and Paul Read, Monash University

At this time of year, each year - the bushfire season - the complex nature of human behaviour hits home. Bushfires are a terrible event. The environmental destruction, the loss of property and sometimes…

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