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Author: Bindi Irwin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 1402255209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"While on an early morning walk, Bindi and her friend Rosie see the smoke from a terrible bushfire. They rush to the Australian Wildlife Hospital to help care for the animals that were trapped in the fire"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Justin D'Ath
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2005-08-29
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 0143302205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Help me!' I gasped. 'My name is Sam Fox and I'm trapped in a truck . . . There's a bushfire all around me!' It's the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop cattle rustlers from stealing a stud bull, an injured Sam is isolated in the mountains during a horrific bushfire. To survive, he must rely on his courage; ingenuity, and the help of Chainsaw – a mad old rodeo bull! An action-packed rollercoaster ride, Bushfire Rescue is the second book in a thrilling new series! Visit puffin.com.au/extreme for more.
Author: Peter Fairbrother
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0429766106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living and working in wildfire-prone areas, the authors focus on issues of power and inequality, the contested nature of community and the relationship between citizens and the state. The book questions not only existing policy approaches, but also the central concepts on which they are founded. In doing so, the aim is to create a more conceptually robust and academically contextualised discussion about the limitations of current wildfire policy approaches in Australia and to provide further evidence of the need for disaster studies to engage with a variety of social science approaches. Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice will be of most interest to higher degree by research students, other academics and policy makers examining the evolving patterns and politics of work, employment, management and industrial relations as well as those involved in emergency and disaster management service delivery. It would be most suited to academic and public libraries as well as organisations in the field of emergency and disaster management.
Author: Christopher Pettit
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-06-03
Total Pages: 627
ISBN-13: 3540691685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched. Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes. Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as in Australia — where landscapes dominate and their relationship to cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives — perhaps it could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities and never see the landscapes — but it is these that give the country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention in the world threatens its very existence.
Author: John Handmer
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2008-02-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0643098771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunity Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management. Managing community safety requires a diversity of knowledge and an understanding of the many social processes that shape and ultimately determine a community’s resilience to bushfire. The wide range of issues covered in this volume reflects this diversity, including research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonist’s rationale; the influence of the media; the role of economics in bushfire management and decision-making; understanding declines in fire brigade volunteerism; bushfire safety policy and its implementation; the effectiveness of community education and risk reduction schemes; and modes of building ignition. Community Bushfire Safety is accessible to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and students. While the research reported has been undertaken in Australia, much of the material is generic and is likely to be relevant and useful to those dealing with community bushfire safety elsewhere in the world.
Author: Aliyyah H. Ali
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1525574000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is Khloe Koala’s first birthday and she is very excited to start her special day. As a one-year-old koala, now she can go on adventures on her own! That’s right. All by herself without her Mama! What adventures she will have! Khloe can hear the noises of the bush around her and it sounds like her animal friends are all celebrating her special day too. Oh my! Khloe wakes up from a birthday nap to a big grey cloud and heat all around her. She doesn’t know what’s happening and she can’t find her mama. Using her big one-year-old voice, Khloe cries for help. Who can help her get to safety now? Join Khloe on her journey through the Australian bush, as she encounters one of the biggest dangers facing koalas today - wild bushfires.
Author: Vicki Hutton
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2019-06-14
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1612495826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Reason to Live explores the human-animal relationship through the narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their animal companions. The narratives, based on a series of interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their animal companions in Australia, span the entirety of the HIV epidemic, from public awareness and discrimination in the 1980s and 1990s to survival and hope in the twenty-first century. Each narrative is explored within the context of theory (for example, attachment theory, the "biophilia hypothesis," neurochemical and neurophysiological effects, laughter, play, death anxiety, and stigma) in order to understand the unique bond between human and animal during an "epidemic of stigma." A consistent theme is that these animals provided their human companions with "a reason to live" throughout the epidemic. Long-term survivors describe past animal companions who intuitively understood their needs and offered unconditional love and support during this turbulent period. More recently diagnosed HIV-positive narrators describe animal companions within the context of hope and the wellness narrative of living and aging with HIV in the twenty-first century. Bringing together these narratives offers insight into one aspect of the multifaceted HIV epidemic when human turned against human, and helps explain why it was frequently left to the animals to support their human companions. Importantly, it recognizes the enduring bond between human and animal within the context of theory and narrative, thus creating a cultural memory in a way that has never been done before.
Author: Caryn Rivadeneira
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1506472087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Saints of Feather and Fang, writer and lifelong animal lover Caryn Rivadeneira explores the ways that animals--from the pets in our homes to the mysterious creatures of the deep--serve as spiritual guides for our hearts, minds, and souls. Rivadeneira offers whimsical and theological reflections on delight, instinct, adaptation, fear, and awe.
Author: Justin D'Ath
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2008-09-29
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 1742283942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSam Fox is on a field trip with his uncle in the Amazon, when he's swept over a waterfall and lands in an underground lake. There he discovers a fortune in gold. He's rich! But things aren't that simple. There's an enormous anaconda lurking in the cave, and that's just the first obstacle Sam will have to overcome if he's to get out of the Amazon alive . . . Visit puffin.com.au/extreme for more.
Author: Amy Waeschle
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1543501249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wildfire can move up to 14 miles per hour, burning up everything in its path in just minutes. From well-known wildfires around the world to those that are lesser known, learn about victims who got caught in wildfires and about the valiant attempts to save them. You'll be on the edge of your seat as you discover the details of what makes a successful rescue, from fierce determination to the right equipment.
