At least 6.9 million Australians living on the expanding fringes of our capital cities could be at risk from urban fires supercharged by climate pollution this report finds. It details how climate pollution is turbo-charging dangerous fire conditions.

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's delivery of the Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program.

This paper presents a randomised evaluation of collective pay-for-performance payments for ecosystem services. The authors test whether community-level fiscal incentives can curtail the use of land clearing fire, a major source of emissions and negative health externalities, in a critical low regulation setting. The program was implemented over the 2018 fire season in Indonesia as...

This paper provides a brief overview of some of the issues that affect firefighters and other emergency service providers, and poses a number of questions concerning how they are recruited, trained and supported; how their equipment is managed; how they communicate during an emergency; and how they share resources.

This literature review focuses predominantly on prescribed burning, which has been used in Australia as the preferred method to reduce fuel loads and fuel continuity and thus has received the most attention in the scientific literature. The paper also canvasses literature related to mechanical fuel load reduction and livestock grazing as fuel management techniques.