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What we and other responders learned that day would go on to spark major changes in U.S. emergency response efforts.
The solution to emergency communications: redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
Mathematicians are a secret weapon when it comes to preparing for outbreaks of diseases like Ebola.
Politics in Nepal will hinder relief and recovery efforts following the earthquake and its aftershocks. But look at it the other way around. Could the disaster help to resolve political problems?
Bushfires can be deadly and destroy homes and properties. But knowing where they are likely to spread next can help emergency services.
Global coverage of the Nepal earthquake focused issues of preparedness and political instability but missed the systemic, historical inequities that made the disaster so devastating.
During natural disasters, the daily inequalities that people with disability face are amplified.
The fires that have swept through South Australia over the past few days have destroyed at least 12,000 hectares and up to 38 homes, in what have been described as the worst South Australian conditions…
Five years on from the devastating Black Saturday fires that swept through central Victoria in February 2009, research shows that people and communities are largely recovering well. In the first major…
In a world where too many go to bed hungry, it comes as a shock to realise that more than half the world’s food production is left to rot, lost in transit, thrown out, or otherwise wasted. This loss is…
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Deputy Head of School, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg and Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Osaka, University of Pittsburgh
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Education, Health and Behavior Studies, University of North Dakota
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Research Active Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Principal Lecturer in Geography, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
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Research Team Leader, Bushfire Behaviour and Risks, CSIRO
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Associate Professor, Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management Studies, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath