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Industrial-sized confinement farming systems pose massive challenges during hurricanes, floods or wildfires, including significant public health, animal welfare and socio-economic implications.
Many scientific concepts, including bushfires and climate change, happen at scales outside human perception. So how can we ever understand them?
With a bit of sensible planning, you can retain plants close to your home without creating a huge bushfire risk.
Wildfires reduce the reliability of city water supplies in North America. But active forest management provides a key to the solution.
A recent ruling by the UN’s Human Rights Committee recognized that climate refugees do exist, and acknowledged a legal basis for protecting them when their lives are threatened by climate change.
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
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Professor of Environmental Science, Australian National University
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Professor, Bushfire Science, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Geography, University of Alberta
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
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Researcher, Environmental Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Assistant Research Professor, Desert Research Institute