Environmental circumstances surrounding bushfire fatalities in Australia 1901-2011

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 192-203

  Blanchi, Raphaele ^a,b   Leonard, Justin ^a,b   Haynes, Katharine ^c   Opie, Kimberley ^a   James, Melissa ^a   Oliveira, Felipe Dimer de ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fatalities; Policy; Warnings; Wildfire; WUI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894249424     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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